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youthhood Now rare or arch.|ˈjuːθhʊd|
Forms: 1 ᵹeoᵹoþhad, ᵹeoᵹuþhad, 3 ȝuweðehode; 7–9 youthood, youth-hood, youthhood.
[OE. ᵹeoᵹuþhád, f. ᵹeoᵹuþ youth + -hád -hood; cf. OS. juguðhêd, MHG. jugentheit. In mod.E. a new formation.]
1. = youth 1, 2, 3.
971Blickl. Hom. 59 Swa þonne ᵹelice bið þære menniscan ᵹecynde þæs lichoman, þonne se ᵹeoᵹoþ-had ærest bloweþ & fæᵹerost bið. a1050Liber Scintill. lxii. (1889) 189 Se þe estelice fram ᵹeoᵹuðhade [L. pueritia] fet þeow his þær⁓æfter hyne onᵹyt ofermodiᵹne. a1225Ancr. R. 342 Of al þin elde, of childhode, of ȝuweðehode.
1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. i. vi. 49 In this age of youth⁓hood, (commonly called Adolescency). 1637Gillespie Engl. Pop. Cerem. ii. iii. 17 From his youthood he was most observant of Ecclesiasticall Ceremonies. 1680in Sprat Relat. Wicked Contriv. ii. (1693) 64 It was a folly of Youth-hood. 1724Warburton Tracts (1789) 36 My Governess Philosophy, under whose Roof I spent my Youth-hood. a1807J. Skinner Amusem. Leis. Hours (1809) 49 A gawsie gurk, wi' phiz o' yellow, In youthood's sappy bud. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vii. x, With the down of youthhood still on his chin. 1887Smiles Life & Lab. 143 All new ideas are young, and originate for the most part in youth-hood.
b. fig. Early stage or period: = youth 2 b.
1828D'Israeli Chas. I, II. xii. 343 The native of a land where, in the youthhood of the Republic, a nation's independence had broke forth. 1880W. Watson Prince's Quest 101 And night and day its crystal heart doth yearn To wed its youthhood with the sea's old age.
2. concr. Young people collectively: = youth 5.
1690J. Mackenzie Siege London-Derry 48 The Youth⁓hood by a strange impulse ran in one Body and shut the Gates. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxviii. (1857) 412 The urchin who, in behalf of the outraged youthhood of the place, wore the white sheet on this interesting occasion. |