nonage

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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

You will please to recollect, sir, that during one hundred and sixty years of our childhood we were in our nonage; respecting our parent and looking up to her for books, science, and improvements.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.

During Nero's nonage he was persevering in his studies and made great progress in Greek.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Though in my nonage I have seen A world of taking faces, I had not age or wit to ken Their several hidden graces.

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter