pupilage

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Is it that the dignity of genius forbids it, or that pupilage is half a disgrace?

From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous

And woe to the sophist who, with arguments drawn from the unconfirmed constitution of his childhood, would strive to render his imperfect, because immature, state of pupilage a permanent one!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

The child had outlived the years of pupilage; the interests of the old and the young required a separate household.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George

In accounting for it, and finding out the determining experiences of the artist's pupilage, we shall account, also, for much that came after.

From Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work by Rhys, Ernest

The transition of the son from the pupilage of childhood and youth to the independence of manhood is often trying to the filial relation.

From Hooking Watermelons 1898 by Bellamy, Edward