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non⋅age

[non-ij, noh-nij]
–noun
1. the period of legal minority, or of an age below 21.
2. any period of immaturity.

Origin:
1350–1400; late ME < MF (see non-, age ); r. ME nownage < AF nounage; MF as above
non·age   (nŏn'ĭj, nō'nĭj)   
n.  
  1. The period during which one is legally underage.
  2. A period of immaturity: "The bravest achievements were always accomplished in the nonage of a nation" (Thomas Paine).

[Middle English nounage, from Anglo-Norman, variant of Old French nonaage : non-, non- + aage, age; see age.]

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.

Nonage

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.

nonage 
1399, "state of not being of age," from O.Fr. nonage, from non- + age.
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