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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Puber, a yonge mosy bearde, whyche spryngeth in the nether partes of a man at .xiiii. yeres of age: of a woman at yonger yeres.

1563 Ressoning Crosraguell & Knox f. 4 My Lorde in this his impotent age could haue contented him self with the self same ease and quietnes that in his yonger age and better habilitie, he enioyed.

1578 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 707 Gude will schawin unto him in his youngar aige.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 41 To shake all cares and busines of our state, Confirming them on yonger yeares. View more context for this quotation

1676 J. Glanvill Ess. iii. 52 They [sc. the Peripatetick Disputers] imployed their Younger Studies upon the Philosophy of Disputation.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xvii. 276 Whether in their Chamber, Parlour or Study, in the younger or elder Years of Life.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxv. 260 He had been an old votary of the turf in his younger days.

1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 293/2 Mozart in his younger years was hardly less great as a violinist than a piano-player, and his Violin Concertos,..are the most valuable compositions in that form.

1907 Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 7 401 In his younger days he was a keen cricketer... He also used to row.

1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden 495 In my younger days I played tennis.

1980 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 20 Dec. Christmas, as a grownup, with your parents can bring back memories of younger times.

2008 Church Times 19 Dec. 42/2 It is our little deaths, the losses and failures of our younger years, that help us to face the diminishments of our later years.