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adolescence|ædəʊˈlɛsəns|
[a. Fr. adolescence (14th c., Littré), ad. L. adolēscentia; see next.]
The process or condition of growing up; the growing age of human beings; the period which extends from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth; ordinarily considered as extending from 14 to 25 in males, and from 12 to 21 in females. Also fig.
c1430Lydg. Bochas ix. xxv. (1554) 207 b, Afterward in their Adolescence Vertuously to teach them. 1647Howell Lett. (1650) I. 423 Those times which we term vulgarly the old world, was indeed the youth or adolescence of it. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy I. 439 System of education, for the government of my childhood and adolescence. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IX. xx. xiii. 242 Ballot-Box Influenza! One of the most dangerous Diseases of National Adolescence. 1876Rogers Pol. Econ. vii. 2 An infant had its price which rose as the child reached adolescence. |