pupilage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pupilage
Example Sentences
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During my pupilage, I had read hard, and devoted every energy to the mastery of a difficult profession, and ever since that period I had pursued a rigid course of study.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 by Chambers, William
When military aviation had outgrown its early pupilage to the Royal Engineers it came under the immediate control of the War Office.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
The child had outlived the years of pupilage; the interests of the old and the young required a separate household.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George
The rough schooling of French hostility was necessary for the development of those qualities among the British colonists which enabled them finally to break the bonds of pupilage and stand alone.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George
And woe to the sophist who, with arguments drawn from the unconfirmed constitution of his childhood, would strive to render his imperfect, because immature, state of pupilage a permanent one!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay
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