nonage

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Anglo-Norman nounage, corresponding to non- + age.

For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. — On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
We may congratulate ourselves that the period of nonage,[305] of follies, of blunders, and of shame, is passed in solitude, and when we are finished men, we shall grasp heroic hands in heroic hands. — Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson
After it was by public sentence delivered, what should be done with the sweet Philoclea, the laws of Arcadia bearing that what was appointed by the magistrates in the nonage of the prince could not afterwards be repealed. — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney

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