howto set terminus font in .Xresources for xterm

hi everyone

what is the correct command to put in .Xresources for the terminus font,
the following is my Xresources file,
i've tried a few variation but all i get when i start xterm is cannot
load font,
font loading is new to me so i have only try examples off the web
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XTerm*utf8: 1
! XTerm*font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
XTerm*font: terminus-12
XTerm*italicFont: terminus-12
XTerm*selectToClipboard: true


!    ! Use a nice truetype font and size by default...
!    xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Book
!    xterm*faceSize: 11

xterm*loginshell: true

xterm*savelines: 16384

! double-click to select whole URLs :D
xterm*charClass: 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
XTerm*on3Clicks: regex
([[:alpha:]]+://)?([[:alnum:]!#+,./=?@_~-]|(%[[:xdigit:]][[:xdigit:]]))+
*VT100*translations: #override Shift <Btn1Up>:
exec-formatted("google-chrome '%t'", PRIMARY)

! DOS-box colours...
!    xterm*foreground: rgb:a8/a8/a8
    xterm*foreground: rgb:ff/ff/00
    xterm*background: rgb:00/00/00
    xterm*color0: rgb:00/00/00
    xterm*color1: rgb:a8/00/00
    xterm*color2: rgb:00/a8/00
    xterm*color3: rgb:a8/54/00
    xterm*color4: rgb:00/00/a8
    xterm*color5: rgb:a8/00/a8
    xterm*color6: rgb:00/a8/a8
    xterm*color7: rgb:a8/a8/a8
    xterm*color8: rgb:54/54/54
    xterm*color9: rgb:fc/54/54
    xterm*color10: rgb:54/fc/54
    xterm*color11: rgb:fc/fc/54
    xterm*color12: rgb:54/54/fc
    xterm*color13: rgb:fc/54/fc
    xterm*color14: rgb:54/fc/fc
    xterm*color15: rgb:fc/fc/fc

! right hand side scrollbar...
    xterm*rightScrollBar: true
    xterm*ScrollBar: true

! stop output to terminal from jumping down to bottom of scroll again
    xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false

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thanks shadrock