The plural of floruit; multiple periods of activity or flourishing for different historical figures or entities.
Plural form of Latin 'floruit,' maintaining the Latin nominative plural form rather than adopting a standard English '-s' pluralization, as is common in scholarly terminology.
Using 'floruits' for multiple historical figures connects them all to the metaphor of blooming—we're calling their productive years a kind of flowering, which is why Latin stayed so alive in scholarship.
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