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
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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
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Plain realism, as in Gorky's "Nachtasyl" and the war stories of Ambrose Bierce, simply wearies us by its vacuity; plain romance, if we ever get beyond our nonage, makes us laugh.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
The youth in his nonage, and the gray-haired and very aged man were there.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by Aughey, John H.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.