adultship

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The state, condition, character, or conduct of an adult

   The state, condition, character, or conduct of an adult; maturity; adulthood

   • But although adultship was then entered upon by the Sherau, and the transformation of the boy into manhood began, the full adultship was not attained until thirty years of age.
   • The allegoric origins only can explain why Jesus should have been rebegotten as the anointed son at 30 years of age, the time of full adultship, in the Egyptian reckoning, in the likeness of the fatherhood.
   • [...] but this sense-conscious state is not to be condemned any more than the child is to be condemned because it has not yet grown to adultship.

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