LekhoriLekhoriOf, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adu...
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