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nonage
UK /ˈnəʊnɪd͡ʒ/ US /ˈnoʊnəd͡ʒ/
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
under
NONAGE + NOUN
council
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
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.
In him there is a hope of government, / That in his nonage council under him, / And in his full and ripen'd years himself, / No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.
noun
1
A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.
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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 admitt
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In him there is a hope of government, / That in his nonage council under him, / And in his full and ripen'd years himself, / No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.
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c. 1608, John Donne, A Litany, stanza VI, "The Angels" in The Poems of John Donne, edited by Edmund Kerchever Chambers, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, http://www.bartleby.com/357/111.html And since
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