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nubile .
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pre- + nubile
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Klive, Mary MacLane, Hilma Strandberg, Marie Bashkirtseff -- have been veritable epics upon woman's nature; have revealed the characterlessness normal to the prenubile period in which everything is kept tentative and plastic, and where life seems to have least unity, aim, or purpose.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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