nonage

• Although in his 'nonage,' Arundel wrote, the Earl was by no means 'of the smallest hope.' —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
• In the mature Greek jurisprudence, the rule advances a few steps on the practice hinted at in the Homeric literature; and though very many traces of stringent family obligation remain, the direct authority of the parent is limited, as in European codes, to the nonage or minority of the children, or, in other words, to the period during which their mental and physical inferiority may always be presumed. —  Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
• We may congratulate ourselves that the period of nonage,[305] of follies, of blunders, and of shame, is passed in solitude, and when we are finished men, we shall grasp heroic hands in heroic hands. —  Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1812 Sir I have just been honoured with your letter.--I feel sorry that you should have thought it worth while to notice the 'evil works of my nonage,' as the thing is suppressed voluntarily, and your explanation is too kind not to give me pain. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• The fact, that Purcell was under obligations to the Italians, may startle many of his modern admirers; but with a candour worthy of himself, in the dedication of his Dioclesian to Charles Duke of Somerset, he says, that "music is yet but in its nonage, a forward child. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

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