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

He secured as the price of his ostentatious fidelity the custody of the Honour of Huntingdon, during the nonage of the earl, his nephew, John the Scot.

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

He resigned his crown to Kenred, his nephew, brother to our saint, having been chosen king only on account of the nonage of that prince.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban