nonage

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

nonage
    n 1: any age prior to the legal age [syn: {minority}, {nonage}]
         [ant: {legal age}, {majority}]

from 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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from 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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from 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

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