maturer
Americannoun
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someone who brings something to a state of maturity.
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a person who becomes mature at a different time relative to their peers (used with a modifier, such as early or late).
Example Sentences
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“What I’ve told everybody is, ‘I’m a late maturer.’
From Golf Digest • Apr. 20, 2020
"I came back to Scotland a lot maturer than when I left because I realised it was not quite the same up here," he says.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2015
While the diction is sometimes childlike, even in her maturer poems, their "direct line" to sharp, unmediated experience guarantees them against affectation, and the reader warms to their sensuousness and apparent candour.
From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2010
She's maturer and obviously her game has improved.
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2010
It was necessary too that this sacrifice should be made on Isaac’s part not with the timorous shrinking or ignorant boldness of a boy, but with the full comprehension and deliberate consent of maturer years.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
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