pupilage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pupilage
Example Sentences
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A pretty notion the Signorina must form of your enslaved state of pupilage, when she hears you ask that question.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
In spite of the tyrannic cares of their jealous guides, mankind seem desirous to burst from the pupilage, wherein so many causes combine to retain them.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'
The lieutenants who owed their rank to it became such after seven or eight years, or at, twenty-three or four; and this meant really passing out of pupilage into manhood.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
Richard continued in this state of pupilage in some of the castles belonging to the family from the time that his brother began to reign until he was about fourteen years of age.
From Richard III Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Most of us were shy to speak out in that presence, feeling ourselves in a state of pupilage.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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