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Definition of "juvenilia" []

  • Works, particularly written or artistic works, produced in an author's or artist's youth. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "juvenilia" in a sentence
  • "My juvenilia is on the shelf for anyone to look at."
  • "Heydt-Stevenson importantly insists that the "abandon" of the juvenilia is not "entirely repressed" in"
  • "Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window"
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