Juvenilia
//ˈd͡ʒuːvɪˈniːljə// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Works produced during an artist's or author's youth. plural, plural-only
"...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,..."
Example
More examples"...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,..."
Etymology
From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”).
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