age of discretion
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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If such a state of reason, such an age of discretion made him free, the same shall make his son free too.
From Second Treatise of Government by Locke, John
“Not of the age of discretion, I being witness.”
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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
If he had, when he arrived at what is usually called the age of discretion, inscribed himself among the sons of Italy—à la bonheur.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry
That had been decided upon by destiny years and years ago and ratified after Hugh had reached an age of discretion.
From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr
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