nonage
Example Sentences
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Kant saw humanity living deeply irrational lives in a state of self-imposed nonage, capable of being rescued only by an enlightened but autocratic ruler.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2016
The founding father of black humor in a new, splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred.
From Time Magazine Archive
His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be love but there, let poor six years Be posed with the maturest fears Man trembles at, we straight shall find Love knows no nonage, nor the mind.’
From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Whyte, Alexander
England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry
