age of discretion

noun

Law.

1. the age at which a person becomes legally responsible for certain acts and competent to exercise certain powers.

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Rachel Beanland captures this age of discretion in her debut novel.

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He admitted having been a Catharan “believer” since he had reached the age of discretion, and thus was responsible for himself and others.

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The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.

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Well, here is the condensed truth for you," I reply, amiably: "for this much we have ocular and oral testimony: Four young ladies attend school at Amora; all are pretty, under the age of discretion, and, with perhaps one exception, little versed in the ways of the world and its wickedness.

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When he came to the age of discretion he began to waver between rabbinic orthodoxy and freethought, but he felt an inward call to do something great for the emancipation of his brethren and for restoring the Jewish kingdom.

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