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Are there any situations in which the verb 育ち行く is used? I checked it up in
www.tangorin.com and <http://jisho.org/> and in both I found the definition,
but not a single example of its use.
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Is 育ち行く normally used?
It's not an unfamiliar word, though I'm not sure if it's "normally" used.

This is a compound verb of `育つ` "grow up" + `行く` "go away; get further and
further", and the meaning is transparent. The `-行く` is appended to 連用形 of
verbs of state change, to make literary expressions of similar nuance to
`-て行く` e.g. `去り行く` (老兵は死なず、ただ去り行くのみ "[Old soldiers never die; they just fade
away.](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur#Farewell_address_to_Congress_.281951.29)"),
`移り行く`, `散り行く`, `変わり行く` etc. These words are hardly used outside attributive
nowadays, and don't conjugate, either.

I found many examples in Google that related to `育ちゆく体とわたし` (lit. "My growing-
up body and I"), which seemingly is a sub-curriculum of P.E. on sex education.
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