nonage

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Anglo-Norman nounage, corresponding to non- +‎ age. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnəʊnɪd͡ʒ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnoʊnəd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: (UK) -əʊnɪdʒ ==== Noun ==== nonage (plural nonages) The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor. [from 15th c.] 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, [1] And since this life our nonage is, / And we in wardship to Thine angels be, / Native in heaven's fair palaces / Where we shall be but denizen'd by Thee; === Etymology 2 === From Late Latin nonagium, from nōnus (“ninth”). ==== Noun ==== nonage (plural nonages) (obsolete, rare) A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods. === Anagrams === Genoan, gonane