precocity

precocity englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

precocity englanniksi

1. The state of being precocious.

2. 1817 Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt, ''Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry'', New York: M'elrath, Bangs & Co., 1834, Section I, pp. 23-4, https://books.google.ca/books?id=5vE5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

I cannot learn that he gave in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.

3. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)

4. {{quote-book|en|year=1924|author=Herman Melville|title=Billy Budd|location=London|publisher=Constable & Co.|chapter=15|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html

5. 1946, (w), ''(w)'', Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell, Oxford University Press, Chapter XII, p. 242, https://books.google.ca/books?id=IbJ-31LPvyoC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

Anna Comnena, the Byzantine princess turned historian, sees our eleventh-century forebears in just this light, as appears in the mixture of horror with contempt which is her reaction to the mechanical ingenuity of the Crusaders' cross-bow, a Western novelty of her day which—with the characteristic precocity of lethal inventions—preceded by several centuries the invention of clockwork (..)

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1964|author=Anderson (political scientist)|William Anderson|title=Man's Quest for Knowledge: The Study and Teaching of Politics in Ancient Times|location=Minneapolis|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|section=Epilogue, p. 329|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=zbwYQ8-9t2wC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Leonard Pinsky; Robert P. Erickson; R. Neil Schimke|title=Genetic Disorders of Human Sexual Development|pageurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=yVTJkOqw_50C&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=15|page=314|publisher=Oxford University Press

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