1. adj. Not of full age; youthful, immature.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., Wks. (Grosart), V. 52. Farre bee it my vnder-age argumentes should intrude themselues as a greene weake prop to support so high a building.
1612. Webster, While Devil, I. ii. I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta, xli. As secret as if I were some under-age heiress to an Indian fortune.
† 2. sb. The time during which a person is under age; minority. Obs.
1613–8. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), 28. The Duke … recouers his peace, and the Castle of Thuilliers taken from him in his vnder-age.
1641. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civil Wars, III. 147. The underage and weaknesse of his succeeding sonne.
1649. Bp. Hall, Cases Consc., IV. i. (1654), 289. Neither do the Roman doctors generally hold otherwise this day in case of an under-age.
So Underagedness, rare.–0
1648. Hexham, II. Onbejaertheyt, Vnder-agednesse.
