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The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- c. 1608, John Donne, A Litany, stanza VI, "The Angels" in The Poems of John Donne, edited by Edmund Kerchever Chambers, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, http://www.bartleby.com/357/111.html And since this life our nonage is, / And we in wardship to Thine angels be, / Native in heaven's fair palaces / Where we shall be but denizen'd by Thee;
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A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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any age prior to the legal age
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: minority
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Broader terms: legal status, age, eld
From Anglo-Norman nounage, corresponding to non- + age.
From Late Latin nonagium, from nōnus (“ninth”).
