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Juvenility   Listen
noun
Juvenility  n.  (pl. juvenilities)  
1.
Youthfulness; adolescence.
2.
The manners or character of youth; immaturity.





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"Juvenility" Quotes from Famous Books



... their dress with Dutch and rigid regularity, and her figure had a certain squat rotundity that suited her gait. She distinctly looked into Captain Puffin's dining-room window as she passed, and with the misplaced juvenility so characteristic of her waggled her plump little hand at it. At the corner beyond Major Flint's house she hesitated a moment, and turned off down the entry into the side street where Mr. Wyse lived. The dentist lived there, too, and as Mr. Wyse was away on ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson
... romantic circumstance of our great Poet's juvenility was inserted, as a well known fact, in one of the General Evening Posts in the Spring 1789, and it was there supposed to have formed the first ...
— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward
... certainly proved herself to be an excellent wife; but perhaps she might have made herself more pleasing to others if she had not so entirely thrown off from herself all traces of juvenility. Could she, in this respect, have taken a lesson from her mother, she would have been a wiser woman. We have said that she consorted with Mrs. Woodward as though they had been sisters; but one might have said that Gertrude took on ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope


Words linked to "Juvenility" :   callowness, jejuneness, immaturity, youngness, juvenile, youthfulness, youth, immatureness


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