Market historians call these "secular" bull and bear markets from the Latin word saeculum "long period of time" (in contrast to aeternus.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

That 100-year period used to be known as a saeculum — the root of our secular and the French word siècle for century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astrology or Psychohistory? « Isegoria] Reference

A period of time, an age ( 'saeculum') rather than a term used for the world in space.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

In a measure it replaced the less precise saeculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERIODIZATION IN HISTORY] Reference

Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus: quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus: quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

Qui condolens interitu mortis perire saeculum, salvasti mundum languidum, donans reis remedium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

Qui cóndolens intéritu mortis perire saeculum salvásti mundum languidum donnas reis remedium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advent Office, Part I] Reference

This is the apex and reversal of the 3 phases which preceded it; within the context of their saeculum framework of historical perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era : They may be right] Reference

"Haec requies mea in saeculum saeculi: Hic habitabo quoniam elegi eam.".    From Wordnik.com.  [En Route] Reference

Months ago, in a great post at Orcinus, Sara Robinson argued that we are at a major saeculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Utah] Reference

But in 249, another year of distress and peril, a new saeculum was entered on with a new and a Greek ritual, ordered by a Sibylline oracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference

(in saeculum,) for the Greek word, aion, signifies both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference

Cf. the various meanings of saeculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: OLYMPIC SLOGAN.] Reference

At that point a new saeculum would start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astrology or Psychohistory? « Isegoria] Reference

So perīculum, saeculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference

Regnans per omne saeculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

Regnumque in omne est saeculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

Dum veneris judicare saeculum perignem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

"Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master-Christian] Reference

Miretur omne saeculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference

Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master-Christian] Reference