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n. - A period of 10 years.

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  • He was occupied actively with teaching, but the dominant feature of the decennium was his assumption of the Darwinian doctrines.
  • Still as late as in the last decennium of the last century, Capt.
  • A review of the Vital Statistics of Cleveland during the last decennium.
  • Phaerus Aegipti rex captus oculis per decennium, oraculum consuluit de uxoris pudicitia.
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