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adultship

adultship noun: the state, condition, character, or conduct of an adult; maturity; adulthood.

Noun

adultship (uncountable)

  1. The state, condition, character, or conduct of an adult; maturity; adulthood
    • But although adultship was then entered upon by the Sherau, and the transformation of the boy into manhood began, the full adultship was not attained until thirty years of age.1833, Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis
    • The allegoric origins only can explain why Jesus should have been rebegotten as the anointed son at 30 years of age, the time of full adultship, in the Egyptian reckoning, in the likeness of the fatherhood.1904, Robert Shaw (M. A.), Sketch of the Religions of the World - Page 333

Examples of adultship in a sentence

  • [...] but this sense-conscious state is not to be condemned any more than the child is to be condemned because it has not yet grown to adultship.1996, Ali Nomad, Cosmic Consciousness:
  • He had been married twice, and had three children, a son and a daughter from his first marriage, who had long ago reached adultship, and a nine-year-old daughter from his second marriage.2007, Julian Hawthorne, The Lock and Key Library:
  • Thus the matrix attacked the system, and created a holographic insert of adultship being terrible.2013, Ivonne Alexander, Sylvia Dokter, Unplug Your Mind!:

Origin of adultship

From adult + -ship.

Questions about adultship

What does adultship mean?
Adultship means the state, condition, character, or conduct of an adult; maturity; adulthood.
How do you use adultship in a sentence?
[...] but this sense-conscious state is not to be condemned any more than the child is to be condemned because it has not yet grown to adultship.
What part of speech is adultship?
Adultship is a noun.

Words near adultship in the dictionary

  1. adultress
  2. adultresses
  3. adultry
  4. adults
  5. adults in the room
  6. adultship
  7. adultspeak
  8. adultswear
  9. adultwear
  10. adulty
  11. adumber

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