Crossword-Solution: NONAGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nonage | n. | The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. |
| Nonage | n. | Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NONAGE | anagram | GENOAN |
We have 32 clues for the answer “NONAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| state of being under full legal age | 1 answer |
| pupillage | 1 answer |
| Under twenty-one | 1 answer |
| The period of immaturity | 1 answer |
| State of being under 21. | 1 answer |
| Period of youth before maturity | 1 answer |
| Period of youth | 1 answer |
| Period of minority. | 1 answer |
| Period of legal immaturity. | 1 answer |
| Period of immaturity | 1 answer |
| One's legal minority. | 1 answer |
| Legal minority | 1 answer |
| Legal infancy | 1 answer |
| Immature years | 1 answer |
| A period of immaturity | 1 answer |
| Under 21. | 2 answers |
| YOUTHFUL years | 3 answers |
| Youthful period | 4 answers |
| minority | 6 answers |
| leading strings | 10 answers |
| ADOLESCENCE AND OTHERS | 11 answers |
| infancy | 14 answers |
| Infant | 15 answers |
| Helplessness | 18 answers |
| Lass | 22 answers |
| Growing pains. | 34 answers |
| Adolescence | 45 answers |
| inutility | 53 answers |
| young person | 62 answers |
| Immaturity | 72 answers |
| Adolescent | 72 answers |
| Inaction | 75 answers |
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Sentences with NONAGE (5)
Had not he himself made anti-national treaties almost before he was out of his nonage? And for the matter of that, had not every one else done the like? Such are some of the thoughts by which he might explain to himself his aversion to such extremities; but it was on a deeper basis that the feeling probably reposed.
All these had been condemned as useless bawbles, playthings at best, fit only for the infancy of the world or rods to govern and chastise it in its nonage, but with which universal manhood at its full-grown stature could no longer brook to be insulted.
For we cannot deny the church of God both in Asia and Africa, if we do not forget the peregrinations of the apostles, the deaths of the martyrs, the sessions of many and (even in our reformed judgment) lawful councils, held in those parts in the minority and nonage of ours.
All was vain: that he had passed a riotous nonage, that he was a zealot, that he twice displayed (compared with his grotesque companions) some tincture of soldierly resolution and even of military common sense, and that he figured memorably in the scene on Magus Muir, so much and no more could I make out.
And, if they are to be impeached in the judgment of an equal and indifferent observer, we may be sure they will be emphatically condemned by the grave and enlightened censor who looks back upon the years of his own nonage, and recollects that he was himself the victim of the intemperance to be pronounced upon.
Quotes with NONAGE (2)
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), who sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he …
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1945–2017).