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juvenilia

noun /ˌd͡ʒuːvəˈnɪliə/

  1. Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.

    […]rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his “Juvenilia” or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,[…].

Where it comes from

From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”). By surface analysis, juvenile + -ia

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry juvenilia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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