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
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
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
The young Giant was out of his nonage; and those who wished to grapple with him must do it in the Court of Quarter Sessions—where he defied them.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Thou art in this world in the nonage of thy being—Eternity is the soul’s immortal manhood.
From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
