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)

The theatre was what chiefly lured him; he had written plays in his nonage, and he now proposed to do them on a large scale, and so get some of the easy dollars of Broadway.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

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.