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Designate A Quiet Period

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verb

• create and charge with a task or function

• assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to

• furnish

29%11 Term used to designate a period of two thousand years
adjective

• of or relating to a bimillennium

22%6A traditional period of quiet reflection
noun

• arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

• the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

• (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

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