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Adolescence

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Adolescence'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/adolescence.html. 1828.