Juvenilia Definition

jo͝ovə-nĭlē-ə, -nĭlyə
noun
Writings, paintings, etc. done by an author, artist, etc. in his or her youth.
Webster's New World
Books for children.
Webster's New World

(literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.

Wiktionary

Origin of Juvenilia

  • Latin iuvenīlia from neuter pl. of iuvenīlis juvenile juvenile

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin iuvenilia, neuter plural of iuvenilis “of or pertaining to youth.”

    From Wiktionary

Juvenilia Sentence Examples

  • To this period belong his exercises in Latin verse, in the loose taste of the day, foolishly published by him as Juvenilia in 1548.

  • Of his prose works, the Juvenilia appeared in 1633; the Lxxx Sermons in 1640; Biathanatos in 1644; Fifty Sermons in 1649; Essays in Divinity, 1651; his Letters to Several Persons of Honour, 1651; Paradoxes, Problems and Essays, 1652; and Six and Twenty Sermons, 1661.

  • His other works include Juvenilia et poemata varia, orationes and epistolae.

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