twelfth

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Doubtless the idea of an aeon is in one sense always uniform, always the same, viz., as a tenth or a twelfth is always the same.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number 12 in a series.
  2. noun One of 12 equal parts.

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  • I wrote to you, my dearest love, the 12th of September; the twelfth was the day after the eleventh, and I have a little tale to relate to you concerning that eleventh day. —  Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
  • No Line on the Horizon is their twelfth, and possibly best, studio album. —  News @U2
  • In an April 2006 essay entitled "The frightening Truth of Why Iran Wants a Bomb," Taheri wrote that just before announcing to the world that Iran had "gatecrashed 'the nuclear club," President Ahmadinejad "disappeared for several hours" to have a secret meeting with the Islamis messiah, a figure known as the twelfth Imam or Mahdi. —  Latest Articles
  • The twelfth was an unfortunate young man from Delhi, from a very wealthy family who sent him sweets, candies and biscuits every week. —  Desicritics
  • The mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will lead a tribute concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the twelfth, and the historian Raymond Arsenault has published a book entitled "The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America" (Bloomsbury; $25). —  The New Yorker
 

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  1. Middle English twelfthe, alteration of Old English twelfta; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. With -th for earlier -t, from Middle English twelfte, from Anglo-Saxon twelfta (= OFries. twilifta, tolfta = D. twaalfde = Middle Low German twelfte, twolfte, Low German twolfte, twölfte = Old High German zwelifto, zwelifte, Middle High German zwelfte, German zwölfte = Icelandic tōlfti = Swedish fte = Danish tolvte = Gothic (Moesogothic) *twalifta), twelfth; as twelve + -th.
 

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