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adolescency|ædəʊˈlɛsənsɪ|
[ad. L. adolēscentia n. of state f. adolēscent-em pr. pple. of adolēsc-ĕre to grow up.]
The quality or state of being adolescent, or in the growing age. Properly distinguished from adolescence, as youthfulness is from youth, as in ‘a protracted adolescence,’ but ‘evidences of adolescency.’
1398Trevisa Barth. De P. R. vi. i. (1495) 186 Adolescencia duryth the thyrd vii yere..and after this adolescenciaes aege comyth the aege that is callyd juventus. 1495Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de Worde) i. liv. 110 bb, In his adolescencie he was Paynem. 1502Arnold Chron. (1811) 157 The iij. age is adholocencye and endurith vnto xxv. yere age. 1603Florio Montaigne (1632) i. xxvii. 92 The first and beardlesse youth of his adolescency. 1719Freethinker No. 138 in Philol. Anglic., In the seasons of puerility and adolescency. |