nonage
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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
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
He was going to call his book of tales, Old-Time Legends: together with Sketches, Experimental and Ideal,—a title which Woodberry calls "ghostly with the transcendental nonage of his genius."
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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