1973, The causes & consequences of debauchery, Karachi: Peermahomed Ebrahim Trust, →OCLC, page 121:
While condemning the women committing adulting with all the force at its command, Islam has given due regard to chaste women[…]
1976, C. Richard King, Susanna Dickinson: messenger of the Alamo, Austin, TX: Shoal Creek, →ISBN, page 71:
He further charges and alleges, that on or about the time she left his bed and board in the County of Harris, in the City of Houston, she was guilty of adulting with several persons, whose names to your petitioner is unknown,[…]
Verb: present participle of adult (behaving in the customary manner of a mature person)[edit]
2002, Gabriel Leif Bellman, Spoon me: short stories from Brooklyn, Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 104:
In fact, because you are adulting, you must do more to play. Keep all your curiousness. Don't give in to those who are serious.
2010, Kenneth Jedding, Higher education: on life, landing a job, and everything else they didn't teach you in college, Emmaus, PA: Rodale, →ISBN, page 210:
Then how about this: How about out-adulting the person who's driving you crazy. In other words, being the bigger adult.
2013, Elisa Morgan, The beauty of broken: my story, and likely yours too, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 60:
In my childhood I tried to fix my first family with my scrubbing and painting and managing and adulting the lives around me.
Verb: present participle of adult (maturing)[edit]
1909 September 23, K. P. Jervis, “The ripening years”, in The Christian advocate[1], volume 84, number 38, New York: Eaton and Mains, →ISSN, page 1509:
[…]when our children and our churches are adulting from their vivacious spring gushings,[…]
1921, James Harold Doyle, The call of education, Hammond, IN: Doyle, →OCLC, page 36:
If it were not for the adulting process involved I would not care a copper whether a pupil went to a school on the 8-4 plan, or to one on the 6-6 plan.
2007, Jane Humphries, “ 'Because they are too menny...' children, mothers, and fertility decline: the evidence from working-class autobiographies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”, in Angélique Janssens, editor, Gendering the fertility decline in the Western world, Population, family, and society, volume 7, Bern [u.a.]: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 116:
Trends in the relative costs of child rearing cannot be separated from the economic, social and cultural consequences of both the gendering and adulting of labour markets.
2013, Ewa Rewers, The contradictions of urban art: contrasting models of critical consciousness, Development in humanities, volume 5, Berlin: Lit, →ISBN, pages 153–154:
The process of adulting children, typical for consumer societies (accompanying the process of the infantilisation of adults described by mass culture scientists starting from José Ortega y Gasset19),[…]
1953, Isabel Drummond, The sex paradox, New York: Putnam, →OCLC, page 240:
The common law, like the Roman, viewed the crime from the standpoint of adulting the issue of the husband of the sexually straying wife, bringing upon him spurious offspring whom he might have to support and who might inherit his property;[…]