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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Prepuberty.
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- noun The period prior to the onset of
puberty ;prepuberty
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Examples
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People who don't know any better figure that I must be an pretty good gamer; I've got freaky-good reflexes, and a superior sense of aim that was honed to near-perfection in prepubescence.
February 24th, 2005 _gnostica_ 2005
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“Where you from?” she asked in a high-pitched voice that could only be an affected attempt at prepubescence.
The Parable of the Spider darkerblogistan 2009
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Then one morning she woke up to several bright red blots on her sheets, and just like that, she was normal; God had not, after all, doomed her to eternal prepubescence.
Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010
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Your post prodded me to reflect on my prepubescence — I was really rather conservative and shy and never found myself in such circumstances.
If Truth Is A Woman, She Wears A Skort | Her Bad Mother 2007
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Infantilise it as the "Inner Child" of the self-help charlatans though, idealise it in a sexually-retarded prepubescence, project that unreturnable infancy onto an unattainable other, and you're asking for the trouble that comes to Barrie's Pan or Sinisalo's Angel.
Poland Won, Bad Points Nil Hal Duncan 2006
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Infantilise it as the "Inner Child" of the self-help charlatans though, idealise it in a sexually-retarded prepubescence, project that unreturnable infancy onto an unattainable other, and you're asking for the trouble that comes to Barrie's Pan or Sinisalo's Angel.
Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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Your post prodded me to reflect on my prepubescence -- I was really rather conservative and shy and never found myself in such circumstances.
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In my grief, I reverted back to the staples of prepubescence, which revolved around an endless string of sports victories by my hometown teams.
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In fact, in Junior High School, I was a tiny little shriveled mess of prepubescence.
First Crush vuboq 2006
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Yes, I did go through the obligatory "UNICORNS ARE MY WORLD" phase of prepubescence, a phase which culminated in a veritable stable of "My Little Pony" toys.
cat mornings. of doom. and mucus. isis_sulis 2004
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