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Webster 1913 Edition

Adolescence

Adˊo-les′cence

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Noun.
[Fr., fr. L.
adolescentia
.]
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Webster 1828 Edition

Adolescence

ADOLES'CENCE

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Noun.
[L. adolescens, growing, of ad and olesco, to grow, from oleo. Heb. to ascend.]
The state of growing, applied to the young of the human race; youth, or the period of life between childhood and manhood.

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