Obs. [f. YOUNG a. + -hede, -HEAD.] Youth (abstr. and concr.).
c. 1275. Moral Ode, 369, in O. E. Misc., 71. Þer is yonghede buten ealde.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 2195. Alle vre kniȝtes & swaines & alle vre ȝonghede.
c. 1305. St. Lucy, 21, in E. E. P. (1862), 102. To an heþene man Lucie was iwedded in ȝunghede.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 351. Elde … That shorter was a foot, ywis, Than she was wont in her yonghede.
