Citations:duodecade

period of years (unclear whether 12 or 20)

 * 2002, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370-1600, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521894043), pages 47 and 171:
 * Because I analyzed the data within twenty-year periods between 1400 and 1599 and within a thirty-year period in the late fourteenth century, and because a sampling procedure was utilized, the sets did not have to be to be uninterrupted so long as they included entries from at least two or three years within the duodecades observed.
 * Another factor that weakens the distinctiveness of the clusters is that some communities reported problems within more than one cluster during a given duodecade and hence appear in several groupings. Until 1460, no more than 9 percent of ...
 * 2015, Bard Bloom, Mating Flight: A Non-Romance of Dragons:
 * Actually it is still early afternoon, and nothing much of interest is going to happen for the rest of the day, or the duodecade, either. So I'm going to sit down and write something that didn't happen today: the first time I killed anyone on purpose.
 * Actually it is still early afternoon, and nothing much of interest is going to happen for the rest of the day, or the duodecade, either. So I'm going to sit down and write something that didn't happen today: the first time I killed anyone on purpose.

Gnostic concept (12)

 * 2016, J. McBride, Albert Camus: Philosopher and Littrateur, Springer (ISBN 9781137073938), page 17:
 * From these six principles the pleroma will emerge in its absolute entirety, and it will be composed of two groups of angels or aeons, the one of twelve, the other of ten, in other words, in the language of the Gnostics, the decade and duodecade.
 * 2016, W. Milton Timmons, The Scroll Seekers: Who Created the New Testament?, AuthorHouse (ISBN 9781524652715)
 * The Gnostics say the production of the “Duodecade” of the Eons is indicated by the fact that the Lord was twelve years old when he disputed with the teachers in the temple, and by his selection of twelve disciples.