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Definition of Prepubescence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prepubescence
Literary usage of Prepubescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Secondary Education by Alexander James Inglis (1918)
"The change from prepubescence to pubescence is most ' noticeable from age 13.75
to age ... For the ending of prepubescence and the beginning of pubescence i ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1904)
"... especially in the various phases of fear and anger, sympathy and love.
prepubescence, from about eight to twelve years of age, and the transition stage ..."
3. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1916)
"According to the last definition, prepubescence would mean the period up to the
time when pubescence begins, ..."
4. Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis by Abraham Arden Brill (1921)
"At the age of prepubescence the children normally begin to tear themselves away
from the parents; a little boy will no longer even like to be hugged and ..."
5. Stories and Story-telling in Moral and Religious Education by Edward Porter St. John (1910)
"When we turn to the children who have passed from the stage of early childhood
to that of prepubescence, those who are between eight or nine and about ..."
6. The Psychological Phenomena of Christianity by George Barton Cutten (1908)
"From nine to twelve, sometimes called prepubescence, considerable takes place in
the individual. The intellect develops rapidly and there is an enlargement ..."
7. Stories and Story-telling in Moral and Religious Education by Edward Porter St. John (1918)
"When we turn to the children who have passed from the stage of early childhood
to that of prepubescence, those who are between eight or nine and about ..."
8. The Junior High School by Aubrey Augustus Douglass (1917)
"According to the last definition, prepubescence would mean the period up to the
time when pubescence begins, ..."
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