Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the vigor, freshness, feelings, tastes, or appearance of youth; youthful; young.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Youthful.
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- adjective archaic
youthful
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bereft of his wife on the last day of August, that easy-going worthy, less than two months later, was discovered by his nephew in an ale-house, "very jolly and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time get him a wife."
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Hence, with my mind full of trouble, to my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found him drinking and very jolly and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time get a wife.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Hence, with my mind full of trouble, to my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found him drinking and very jolly and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time get a wife.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Hence, with my mind full of trouble, to my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found him drinking and very jolly and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time get a wife.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Hence, with my mind full of trouble, to my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found him drinking and very jolly and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time get a wife.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661
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