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juvenescent

[ joo-vuh-nes-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. being or becoming youthful; young.
  2. young in appearance.
  3. having the power to make young or youthful:

    a juvenescent elixir.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • v·ԱcԳ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of juvenescent1

1815–25; < Latin ܱŧԳ- (stem of ܱŧŧԲ, present participle of ܱŧ to become youthful), equivalent to juven- young ( juvenile ) + -ŧԳ- -escent
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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.

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Certainly, for time out of mind an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

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Besides, what is the use of wigs and hair-dye and padding, and what not coloring and enamelling, and other juvenescent procedures of the feminine arcana, if annual proclamation of impertinent dates and facts is to be made?

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His song My Generation, with its juvenescent proclamation, "Hope I die before I get old," had become the anthem of the Woodstock era.

Among this season's top drawers: the Stan Kenton and Glenn Miller bands, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Spivak and Gene Krupa, along with such juvenescent goldbugs as Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Paul Anka, and the comparable Fabian, whose singing debut was made at the pier's Kiddies Theater a short time ago, when he was twelve.

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