nonage

Example Sentences

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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

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

So far back as 1227 advantage had been taken of Henry's majority to exact large sums of money for the confirmation of all charters sealed during his nonage.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William

Though in my nonage I have seen A world of taking faces, I had not age or wit to ken Their several hidden graces.

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter

But this is no longer a child-nation, irresponsible in its nonage and incapable of comprehending or assuming the responsibilities of its acts.

From Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses by Reid, Whitelaw