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   Youth , n.; pl. Youths  or collectively Youth. [OE. youthe, youhþe, ȝuheðe, ȝuweðe, ȝeoȝeðe, AS. geoguð, geogoð; akin to OS. juguð, D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. √281. See Young.]
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   The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. “In my flower of youth.”
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   Such as in his face
   Youth smiled celestial.
   Milton.
   
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   The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
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   He wondered that your lordship
   Would suffer him to spend his youth at home.
   Shak.
   
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   Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly.
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   A young person; especially, a young man.
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   Seven youths from Athens yearly sent.
   Dryden.
   
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   Young persons, collectively.
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   It is fit to read the best authors to youth first.
   B. Jonson.
   
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