For all his precocity, he still has a lot of growing up to do.
A quaint mixture of childishness and precocity is noticeable in all his letters.
An instance of precocity was the attempted abduction in May, 1851, of a girl of thirteen by two boys a little older.
Others also exhibited a precocity which from day to day rewarded and stimulated the ardor of this devoted teacher.
From the instance I had had in him, I began to perceive that precocity o' intellect was nae proof o' its power.
But Byron was proud of his precocity, and liked to recall it, and to wonder if any other lover had ever been equally precocious.
