Meaning of NONAGE
| Pronunciation: | | 'nânij
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| | Definition: | | [n] any age prior to the legal age |
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| | Synonyms: | | minority |
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| | Antonyms: | | legal age, majority | | |
| | See Also: | | age, eld, legal status | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\Non"age\, n. [Pref. non- + age.]
Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal
immaturity; minority.
The human mind . . . was still in its nonage.
--Coleridge.
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| | Related Terms: | | callowness, dewiness, ennead, enneastyle, freshness, greenness, immaturity, inexperience, infancy, juiciness, juniority, minority, Nina from Carolina, nine, nonagon, nonuplet, novena, rawness, sappiness, undevelopment, unripeness |
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