twelvemonth

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twelvemonth

  • /ˈtwɛlvmʌnθ/
  • /ˈtwɛlmʌnθ/ obsolete

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From Middle English twelmonth, twelfmonthe, twelfmonþe, from Old English twelfmōnþ, twelfmōnaþ, equivalent to twelve + month.

noun twelvemonths

  1. dated A year. But her misfortunes were not here to end: for within a twelvemonth after the death of her husband, she was deprived of both her children by a violent fever that then raged in the country; […]

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