Nonage vs Nonane - What's the difference?
nonage | nonane |
The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
(obsolete, rare) A payment formerly made from to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.
As nouns the difference between nonage and nonane
is that nonage is the state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor or nonage can be (obsolete|rare) a payment formerly made from to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods while nonane is (organic compound) any of vary many isomeric alkanes, of general formula c9h20, having 9 carbon atoms.nonage
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nounage, corresponding to .Noun
(en noun)- The other he used to recreate himself with, after he had been solemnly Contracted to his intended Spouse who was in her Nonage , and kept her till his Wife was ripe for Consummation.