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
I could see no reason for a nom de plume in the case of "Gretchen" or the other novel of nonage; with the "Child of Misery" it was different.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen
An infantile captive wields certain coercions to fair treatment peculiar to nonage.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas
