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

So far, we are in Sussex pure and simple; mangolds all around, cattle sheds in front, a Sussex farmer for a companion, the sky of Sussex over all, and the twentieth century in her nonage.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

Thou art in this world in the nonage of thy being—Eternity is the soul’s immortal manhood.

From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

During Nero's nonage he was persevering in his studies and made great progress in Greek.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)