age of discretion
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Papa never realizes that I have at all neared the age of discretion.
From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis
How does it come about that discipline, in the minds of most people, consists so largely of restraining children from doing undesirable acts—until they are well started into the safe age of discretion?
From Your Child: Today and Tomorrow by Gruenberg, Sidonie Matzner
Of lands and houses, nothing is sold till the children arrive at the age of discretion; when each is entitled to his share, the rest being unsold till the others are of age in turn.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
Every sane woman who has arrived at the age of discretion is the guardian of her own honor.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
And now that the twentieth century is coming to the age of discretion, we hear a new term of reproach, Mid-Victorian.
From Humanly Speaking by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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