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a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 75 And was not this Suit come to Adultage for Tryal after Seventeen Years Vexation in it first and last?

1751 C. Morris Observ. London iii. 5 It is probable..that a less Portion of these [children] than formerly would be found in London, and continue to be so till the Year of Adultage.

1793 Kentish Reg. Oct. 97/1 Property, and not adultage only, being the qualification for voting.

1827 Christian Observer Feb. 88 The preservation..of the privilege of vocal utterance..to a man who in adultage becomes deaf.

1898 Pedagogical Seminary 5 494 Very often they have been forced into an early adultage from having been made the constant companions of older persons.

1908 H. Jackson Great Eng. Novelists 283 The novels of Meredith represent the adultage of the novel.

1911 Harper's Mag. July 314/1 They should be allowed to grow into it, as a part of their adultage, when, at the proper season, their rational faculties are..developed.