juvenescent
Americanadjective
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being or becoming youthful; young.
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young in appearance.
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having the power to make young or youthful.
a juvenescent elixir.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- juvenescence noun
Etymology
Origin of juvenescent
1815–25; < Latin juvenēscent- (stem of juvenēscēns, present participle of juvenēscere to become youthful), equivalent to juven- young ( see juvenile) + -ēscent- -escent
Example Sentences
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As I say, my friend wasn't juvenescent, but looking around me at those who were older, I felt my sympathy for them contracting.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2013
His song My Generation, with its juvenescent proclamation, "Hope I die before I get old," had become the anthem of the Woodstock era.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Flora;" by which juvenescent name his aged Indian handmaid was known, usually announced her presence with an imitation of a curlew's cry: it could not be her.
From Drift from Two Shores by Harte, Bret
So may the fresh-coloured and cleanly nursery-maid, who by leave airs her playful charge in your stately gardens, drop her prettiest blushing curtsey as ye pass, reductive of juvenescent emotion!
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
The Thuja occidentalis39 in the juvenescent and adult form, offers an example where morphological and chemical differences go hand in hand.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
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