Adolescence
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ADOLESCENCE, persons. That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of majority; it commences for males at fourteen, and for females at twelve years completed, and continues till twenty-one years complete.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.