pupilage

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She remembered Clarence Copperhead as a full-grown man, beyond, it seemed to her, the age at which pupilage was possible.

From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

A pretty notion the Signorina must form of your enslaved state of pupilage, when she hears you ask that question.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

And woe to the sophist who, with arguments drawn from the unconfirmed constitution of his childhood, would strive to render his imperfect, because immature, state of pupilage a permanent one!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

The rough schooling of French hostility was necessary for the development of those qualities among the British colonists which enabled them finally to break the bonds of pupilage and stand alone.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George

Richard continued in this state of pupilage in some of the castles belonging to the family from the time that his brother began to reign until he was about fourteen years of age.

From Richard III Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob