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Pubescent

adjective

(of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature.

Covered with fine soft hairs or down. Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous.

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... of Augustin's life emerge from the autobiography; and it takes on a general significance. Once for all, under a definite form, and to a certain degree classic, he has diagnosed with his subtle experience of doctor of souls the pubescent crisis in all young men of his age, in all the young Christians who are to come after him. For the story of Augustin is the story of each of us. The loss of faith always occurs when the senses first awaken. At this critical moment, ...

— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand

... investigation can demonstrate that behind this tenderness, such as honoring and esteeming, there is concealed the old sexual strivings of the infantile partial impulses which have now become useless. The object selection of the pubescent period must renounce the infantile objects and begin anew as a sensuous stream. The fact that the two streams do not meet often enough has as a result that one of the ideals of the sexual life, namely, the union of all desires in one object, can ...

— Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex • Sigmund Freud

... Siebenbuergens (Hermannstadt, 1880), p. 14; J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,*[4] iii. 468; G. Lammert, Volksmedizin und medizinischer Aberglaube aus Bayern (Wuerzburg, 1869), p. 147. Among the Western Denes it is believed that one or two transverse lines tattooed on the arms or legs of a young man by a pubescent girl are a specific against premature weakness of these limbs. See A.G. Morice, "Notes, Archaeological, Industrial, and Sociological, on the Western Denes," Transactions of the Canadian Institute, iv. (1892-93) p. 182. The Thompson Indians of British Columbia thought that the ...

— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer

... reddish brown to yellowish brown, or gray, turning more or less gray with age; pubescent the ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various