Lexicographical Neighbors of Precocities
Literary usage of Precocities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"In vain are all your flatteries, In vain are all your knaveries, Delights, deceits,
precocities, Sighs, kisses, and conspiracies, ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"... in families from which proceed these children of keen intellectual precocities,
but inveterate tendencies to vagrancy, prostitution, and lawlessness. ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"... or precocities of physical, psychical, or psycho-physical development.
Its activities, being timely not only, but interesting, since interest and play ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"At least we have two names to set against the list of male precocities. One of
these, indeed—Elizabeth Barrett Browning—ranks among the phenomenal instances ..."
5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"... or precocities of physical, psychical, or psycho-physical development.
Its activities, being timely not only, but interesting, since interest and play ..."
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