单词 | age of discretion |
释义 | > as lemmasage of discretion a. age of discretion: the age at which a person is presumed to be capable of exercising sound judgement, and therefore to be fully responsible for his or her words and actions. Cf. reason n.1 Phrases 1d(a). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > legal maturity agec1275 elda1300 age of discretion1395 years of discretiona1402 discretionc1485 lawful years1548 age of consent1809 the age of reason1884 1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 5 If Thomas here sone forsayd dyeth or he haue age of discrecioun. c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 140 (MED) He þat wille be a virgine, he must in þe bigynnyng of age of discrecioun..refreyne þe kyndly stiringes of corrupcioun of nature. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. ixv The age of discression is sayd the age of .xiiii. yere. 1563 in W. Fraser Memorials Montgomeries (1859) II. 196 Quhill he be of perfyt age of discressione. 1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 206 An Infant at his age of discretion may surrender his copy-hold. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. xii. 69 My Sister, tho' many Years younger than me, is at least old enough to be at the Age of Discretion . View more context for this quotation 1832 H. Martineau Demerara i. 4 The freedom which is so precious to young people when they reach what appears to them the age of discretion. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 578 Church membership is ordinarily decided before the age of discretion without any element of judgment based upon knowledge entering into the situation. 2008 Q. Ahmed In Land of Invisible Women xxxi. 316 The little one is still not at the age of discretion and Islam favors his custody to me, the mother. < as lemmas |
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