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[syn: minority, nonage]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nonage \Non"age\, n. [LL. nonagium, from L. nonus ninth, novem
nine.] (Eccl.)
The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the
clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. --Mozley &
W.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nonage \Non"age\, n. [Pref. non- + age.]
Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal
immaturity; minority.
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The human mind . . . was still in its nonage.
--Coleridge.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nonage
n 1: any age prior to the legal age [syn: minority, nonage]
[ant: legal age, majority]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonage":
Nina from Carolina, callowness, dewiness, ennead, enneastyle,
freshness, greenness, immaturity, inexperience, infancy, juiciness,
juniority, minority, nine, nonagon, nonuplet, novena, rawness,
sappiness, undevelopment, unripeness