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/ˈd͡ʒuːvɪˈniːljə/ · noun
(chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth..
...rhyme was not his [Milton's] talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his "Juvenilia" or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,...
Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.
Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia, […]
The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.
Use juvenilia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Juvenilia means (chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth..
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...rhyme was not his [Milton's] talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his "Juvenilia" or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,...
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