“There had been a sort of precociousness about the sweat-shop girl he remembered.”

“A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness.”

“Taken aback by the teenager's precociousness, the police chiefs sent him away to do a law degree first.”

“Hardy showed precocity with arithmetic and passed examinations with distinction in mathematics and Latin at Cranleigh School.”

“But there seemed to be a kind of clear-sightedness, a kind of precocity that co-existed with that point in life.”

“She, like her brother, studied composition with Zelter and revealed comparable precocity and ability.”