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From the Bible, Psalm 90, verse 10: "The days of our years are three score and ten."

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three score and ten

1. (somewhat dated, idiomatic) Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration.
   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, OCLC 977517776:

     "Why, a man with any feeling ought to be ashamed of being eighty, let alone more. Where’s his religion, I should like to know, when he goes flying in the face of the Bible like that? Threescore-and-ten’s the mark, and no man with a conscience, and a proper sense of what’s expected of him, has any business to live longer."

   • 1845, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 30, in Satanstoe:

     As for old Capt. Hugh Roger, three-score-and-ten had exhausted his fluids, pretty much; but he shook me heartily by the hand.

   • 1894, George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, act 4:

     Frank: And he won't die until he's three score and ten: he hasn't originality enough.

   • 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter 16, in The Lair of the White Worm:

     "[H]e had over-stayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety!"