[f. as next: see -ENCE.] The state of becoming young or youthful; youthful state or condition, youth.
1800. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), V. 275. Two impossible attainments, that of making gold by transmutation, and of renewing juvenescence by an elixir.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., VI. 255. The days of Ebony’s juvenescence.
1851. J. Hamilton, Royal Preacher, iv. (1858), 49. The renewed soul’s perpetual juvenescence.
1862. R. H. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 512. When his mind was scarcely out of its juvenescence.
