nonage

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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

But they who so use this saying simply remand us to the childhood of the church, to the spiritual nonage of the ante-Pentecostal days.

From The Ministry of the Spirit by Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson)

This is clearly at direct issue with Ben Jonson, whose introduced phrases, "pleaded nonage," "wardship," "pupillage," &c., seem to smack too much of legal technology to countenance the supposition of poetic license.

From Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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)