Meaning of adultship | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“He had been married twice, and had three children, a son and a daughter from his first marriage, who had long ago reached adultship, and a nine-year-old daughter from his second marriage.”

“Thus the matrix attacked the system, and created a holographic insert of adultship being terrible.”

“Even as our physical childhood is a prelude to mental adultship, so old age, our "second childhood," is a prelude to our soul adultship, and the character of our old age period is prophetic of our state in the soul life.”

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