decennium

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The Apple of 2010, at the end of its decennium mirabilis, had a record of hardware innovation no other electronics firm could match.

From New York Times • May 1, 2022

But with intellectual matters it is totally different; they change from century to century, nay, from decennium to decennium.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

A similar remark might be made concerning the reference to the poet's old age "which dulleth him in his spirit," in the "Complaint of Venus," generally ascribed to the last decennium of Chaucer's life.

From Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

In the last but one decennium of the sixteenth century, the first dramatists arose who pursued fixed literary tendencies.

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob

Praestantissimum hunc virum, Cum a provincia Bengala, Ubi judicis integerrimi munus Per decennium obierat, Reditum in patriam meditaretur, Ingruentis morbi vis oppressit, X. Kal.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis