Nubility

Though he believed that male circumcision had vanished from southern Mozambique a long time previously, Junod described continuing female "nubility" or initiation (khomba) rites practised among the "Northern clans," a group that would have included residents of the Magude area; it was in this context, he implies, that girls were continuing to adopt a second name. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks. ❋ Jennifer Foote Sweeney (2008)

The approach of nubility had been more strongly marked still when Albertine, speaking of another girl whose tone was bad, said: ❋ Unknown (2003)

She was still quite beautiful, though she lacked the plump nubility of the oil nymphs she was trying to imitate. ❋ Tracy Lynn (2003)

Practical considerations, however, necessitated a temporary deferral of this plan, since—having only recently commemorated the twelfth anniversary of her birth—she had yet to arrive at that age which, from time immemorial, has signified the threshold of nubility. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)

Even if my father had eloped with a female barely past the age of nubility, she would, at present, be significantly older than the person I saw. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)

Chem was a few years younger than Irene, but centaurs aged more slowly than human beings did, so she was now in the flush of nubility. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1983)

In France, more than half the women who have reached the age of nubility are married; in Ireland, generally speaking, less than a third. ❋ Henry Stanton (N/A)

"That all this virility and nubility and glamor is pure coincidence?" ❋ Robert Lee [Illustrator] Berry (1925)

Referring to the years of nubility following puberty, he remarks: "I have very often seen the greatest fecundity of ideas, the most brilliant imagination, a singular aptitude for the arts, suddenly develop in girls of this age, only to give place soon afterward to the most absolute mental mediocrity." ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

Among most modern nations, the civil laws fixing the earliest date of marriage seem to have been made without any reference to physiology, or with the mistaken notion that puberty and nubility are identical. ❋ John Harvey Kellogg (1897)

Enraptured and in complete forgetfulness of his vows, he looked at her, he felt his being quickening, and the dark dawn of a late nubility radiated into manhood. ❋ Unknown (1892)