seventy-two

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    Cardinal: seventy-two
    Ordinal: seventy-second
    Adverbial: seventy-two times

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seventy-two

  1. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-one and preceding seventy-three.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:
      The Platonic Great Year, the time it takes to make a complete circuit through the twelve astrological signs, is 25,920 years; 1/360 of that circle, or one degree, is seventy-two."

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