pupilage

How to use pupilage in a sentence

• The aristocratic friends of the young man would never allow him to see her more, and he was weak enough to be put in pupilage.

  The Mysteries of Montreal | Charlotte Fuhrer

• He looked back upon these, as indeed upon all his years of pupilage, as to a time of struggle and hardship.

  Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam | Ephraim Emerton

• Tyroc′iny, pupilage (see Tirocinium); Ty′ronism, state of being a tyro.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• "I'm afraid I don't quite understand," said Lady Holme, preserving a quiet air of pupilage.

  The Woman With The Fan | Robert Hichens

• Most of us were shy to speak out in that presence, feeling ourselves in a state of pupilage.

  Four Americans | Henry A. Beers