Citations:adulting
English citations of adulting
Noun: form of adultery
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- 1976, C. Richard King, Susanna Dickinson: messenger of the Alamo, Austin, TX: Shoal Creek, →ISBN, page 71:
- He further charges and alleges, that on or about the time she left his bed and board in the County of Harris, in the City of Houston, she was guilty of adulting with several persons, whose names to your petitioner is unknown, […]
Verb: present participle of adult (behaving in the customary manner of a mature person)
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Verb: present participle of adult (maturing)
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- 2007, Jane Humphries, “ 'Because they are too menny...' children, mothers, and fertility decline: the evidence from working-class autobiographies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”, in Angélique Janssens, editor, Gendering the fertility decline in the Western world, Population, family, and society, volume 7, Bern [u.a.]: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 116:
- Trends in the relative costs of child rearing cannot be separated from the economic, social and cultural consequences of both the gendering and adulting of labour markets.
- 2013, Ewa Rewers, The contradictions of urban art: contrasting models of critical consciousness, Development in humanities, volume 5, Berlin: Lit, →ISBN, pages 153–154:
- The process of adulting children, typical for consumer societies (accompanying the process of the infantilisation of adults described by mass culture scientists starting from José Ortega y Gasset19), […]
Unsorted: transitive verb?
edit- 1953, Isabel Drummond, The sex paradox, New York: Putnam, →OCLC, page 240:
- The common law, like the Roman, viewed the crime from the standpoint of adulting the issue of the husband of the sexually straying wife, bringing upon him spurious offspring whom he might have to support and who might inherit his property; […]