See adultship on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1833, Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis:",
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"ref": "1904, Robert Shaw (M. A.), Sketch of the Religions of the World - Page 333:",
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"ref": "1996, Ali Nomad, Cosmic Consciousness:",
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"ref": "2013, Ivonne Alexander, Sylvia Dokter, Unplug Your Mind!:",
"text": "Thus the matrix attacked the system, and created a holographic insert of adultship being terrible.",
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"ref": "2015, McIvor-Tyndall, The Spiritual Function of Sex: Sexual Psychology:",
"text": "Even as our physical childhood is a prelude to mental adultship, so old age, our \"second childhood,\" is a prelude to our soul adultship, and the character of our old age period is prophetic of our state in the soul life.",
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