Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being juvenescent or of growing young.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A growing young.
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- noun The state of becoming
young orjuvenile .
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- noun the process of growing into a youth
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Examples
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They who attempted to read the prophecy with accuracy were of opinion that the prophet had intimated that had the nation, even in this its crisis, consented to take him, the prophet, as its sole physician and to obey his prescription with childlike docility, health might not only have been reestablished, but a new juvenescence absolutely created.
Phineas Redux 2004
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The senility of the fellow's countenance, besides, was contradicted by the juvenescence of his eyes.
The Beetle Richard Marsh
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We are glad they have picked up something during their prolonged juvenescence.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 Various
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They who attempted to read the prophecy with accuracy were of opinion that the prophet had intimated that had the nation, even in this its crisis, consented to take him, the prophet, as its sole physician and to obey his prescription with childlike docility, health might not only have been reestablished, but a new juvenescence absolutely created.
Phineas Redux 1873
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The fresh colors of the young Republic, the bright blazonry of the newest State, the coat-of-arms of the infant County of Tasajara -- (a vignette of sunset-tules cloven by the steam of an advancing train) -- hanging from the walls, were all a part of this invincible juvenescence.
A First Family of Tasajara Bret Harte 1869
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The experience thus gained cost me the bloom of youth; yet I would not exchange it for a life of everlasting juvenescence.
A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia Caroline Healey Dall 1865
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He refers to the library, and the calm wisdom of centuries and sages moderates the rash impulse of juvenescence.
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'Time writes not its wrinkles on our brow;' our juvenescence is in the future.
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'Time writes not its wrinkles on our brow;' our juvenescence is in the future.
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They who attempted to read the prophecy with accuracy were of opinion that the prophet had intimated that had the nation, even in this its crisis, consented to take him, the prophet, as its sole physician and to obey his prescription with childlike docility, health might not only have been re-established, but a new juvenescence absolutely created.
Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848
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