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noun

Infancy n.

The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. "The babe yet lies in smiling infancy." "Their love in early infancy began."

The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art. "The infancy and the grandeur of Rome."

(Law) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

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Etymology of 'Infancy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... warrant for transforming the whole Human Race into one Colossal Man; do not constitute any reason whatever why the 6000 years of recorded time should be divided into three periods corresponding with the Infancy, Boyhood, and ...

— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... last year," said the farmer. "She's a little older than she looks, having been somewhat stunted in her growth, by bad treatment, I suppose, and starvation and cold in her infancy. No one knows who was her father or mother. She was 'found' in the streets one day, when about three years of age, by a man who took her home, and made use of her by sending her to sell matches in public-houses. Being small, very intelligent for her years, ...

— Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished - A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure • R.M. Ballantyne

... those who are in darkness. To the greatest extent of the capacities of all, it is dutiful for them to obtain and distribute copies of the blessed word. Every member of the Church of Christ, from the days of infancy to those of extreme old age, should be a member of a Bible Society; and, till the many millions of the human family have the word in their hands, that it may take possession of their hearts, it should be distributed. Every discovery ...

— The Ordinance of Covenanting • John Cunningham

... Scotch woman, who had a good deal to do with her in her infancy, and partly from studying the Bible, I believe. She is ...

— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley

... just as well to begin early. Infancy is too late. If men were dealt with like other live stock, a contractor might undertake to deliver at Long Wharf a cargo of three-year old human colts and fillies of almost any required standard of development and health, in five years from date. If only a cheap ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various

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