Definition of "juvenescent" []

• Becoming young or youthful. (adjective)

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• "Organizers had crowed happily as they gazed upon the sea of young faces, but could offer the juvenescent crowd only well-intentioned but sad displays of paleofeminism."
• "Jails are to house violent criminals, those that might harm our citizens, not juvenescent behavior."
• "Judge Stockdale must interpret the laws regarding the charges against Mr. Gall, he must find Mr. Gall a harmless brute, not a criminal, criminals go to jail, harmless juvenescent behavior is punished by community service."