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Nonage

//ˈnoʊnəd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.

    "His vvarlike vvife Simeramis, her huſband being dead, / And ſonne in nonage, faining him ſhe ruled in his ſtéede: / Delating in a males attire the Empire nevve begonne: / The vvhich, his yeares admitting it, ſhe yealded to her ſonne."

  2. 2
    A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods. obsolete, rare
  3. 3
    any age prior to the legal age wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman nounage, corresponding to non- + age.

Etymology 2

From Late Latin nonagium, from nōnus (“ninth”).

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