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Precocity is hardly Aleixandre's literary characteristic, whereas constant renewal is.
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Precocity is short lived, and brilliant rather than strong.
Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Mary E. Bradley Lane
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Precocity forced or not is universally a bad thing from a developmental perspective.
Market Failure in HIgher Education?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Precocity in Shakespeare's juveniles need not always be endearing.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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· Precocity (for instance, starting seed production before the third year);
9 Research Needs 1985
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Precocity in a child, therefore, is a thing to be deplored.
Study of Child Life Marion Foster Washburne
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Precocity, which had never been a popular trait, came to the front with no modesty to relieve its disagreeable character.
Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World James Cowan
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Precocity is a dangerous thing, and in his new school Reginald was certainly precocious.
No Man's Land 1912
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Precocity, however, is a quality of dubious virtue.
Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899
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Precocity is undoubtedly a condition which favors such deviation; a child who is precociously and abnormally sensitive to persons of the opposite sex before puberty has established the normal channels of sexual desire, is peculiarly liable to become the prey of a chance symbolism.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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