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Childhood   /tʃˈaɪldhˌʊd/   Listen
noun
Childhood  n.  
1.
The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. "I have walked before you from my childhood."
2.
Children, taken collectively. (R.) "The well-governed childhood of this realm."
3.
The commencement; the first period. "The childhood of our joy."
Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.





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"Childhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... President of Texas, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, but his widowed mother removed in his childhood to Tennessee and settled near the Cherokee Country. Here he was much with the Indians and was adopted by a chief named Oolooteka, who called him Coloneh ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly
... home of her childhood returned tenfold, and tears began to trickle down her cheeks. She was falling in love with this man whose object was her father's ruin. A cold terror clutched at her heart. Even now, while their friendship was so new, so strange, there was ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... saw none of these things when the blanket was first lifted from her head. She gave a gasp of fright and horror. For the first time she now realized that her captor was her childhood's enemy and ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers
... he was driving her to despair. She was ashamed of a son who repaid the sacrifices they had made to educate him with such a want of proper feeling. Yet Honore persisted in his attitude of revolt, Honore, who throughout his childhood and youth had hitherto always submitted docilely to all the rules and commands of the family. "No, I will not be a notary,—I wish to become an author,—a celebrated author." They laughed at him. What promise of talent had he ever given to justify such absurd pretensions? Was it those wretched ...
— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
... all my previous blunders! Why had I blindly consented to care for that woman's progeny? Why? why? Here was I, John Flutter, a young, innocent, unmarried man, approaching the home of my childhood with an infant in my arms! The horror of my situation turned me red and pale by turns as if I had ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor


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