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dodecalogy

dodecalogy noun: a set of twelve (chiefly used of books).

Noun

dodecalogy (plural dodecalogies)

  1. A set of twelve (chiefly used of books).
    • Of all forms of belief, the Monotheistic is at once the most agreeable to reason and the most honouring to Deity. It also seems to be the original form, out of whose lap to a childlike antiquity Polytheism easily unfolded itself, by the loftiest attributes of the one God being conceived first as a...1883, Jacob Grimm, translated by James Steven Stallybrass, Teutonic Mythology […], volume III, London: George Bell & Sons, […], pages li (Preface to the Second Edition (1844)) and 984 (Devil)
    • The author does not say anything here about four other pieces which should go with Robespierre to complete the Dodecalogy.1932, India and the World, volume I, →OCLC, footnote by editor, page 250

Examples of dodecalogy in a sentence

  • We are even promised a dodecalogy on the theme of life in a Cambridge college.1951 October 6, Maurice Collis, “Book Reviews”, in Time and Tide, volume 32, page 948, columns 2–3:
  • The passage presented here is from “The Kindly Ones,” the sixth volume in “The Music of Time” dodecalogy.1962, Show: The Magazine of the Arts, volume 2, page 81:
  • The entire Balzac Study Group was on hand; they can be forgiven their curiosity, for here lay a fit swarm of ideas for their next project—literature’s first simultaneously published dodecalogy!1980, Ed Sanders, “A Mortal Frame”, in Fame & Love in New York, Berkeley, Calif.: Turtle Island Foundation, →ISBN, part four (J’Accuse)...
  • Looking through the volumes of his dodecalogy, The New Age, that have so far appeared, it seems as though [Hugh] Hood’s problems are partly those of the culture to which he belongs.1993, George Woodcock, “One’s Own Vision and Experience: Clark Blaise, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf, Alice Munro, Sheila Watson”, in George...

Forms of dodecalogy

pluraldodecalogies

Origin of dodecalogy

From dodeca- + -logy.

Questions about dodecalogy

What does dodecalogy mean?
Dodecalogy means a set of twelve (chiefly used of books).
How do you use dodecalogy in a sentence?
We are even promised a dodecalogy on the theme of life in a Cambridge college.
What part of speech is dodecalogy?
Dodecalogy is a noun.
What is the plural of dodecalogy?
The plural of dodecalogy is dodecalogies.

Words near dodecalogy in the dictionary

  1. dodecahistidine
  2. dodecahydrate
  3. dodecahydrates
  4. dodecahydroxide
  5. dodecalogies
  6. dodecalogy
  7. dodecamer
  8. dodecamercury
  9. dodecameric
  10. dodecamerization
  11. dodecamerize

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