INFANCY
\ˈɪnfənsˌi], \ˈɪnfənsˌi], \ˈɪ_n_f_ə_n_s_ˌi]\
Definitions of INFANCY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.
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The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.
By Oddity Software
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The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.
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The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.
By Noah Webster.
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The state of being a babe in arms; early childhood; the first stag of anything; in law, the period of life from birth to the age of twenty-one.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The earliest period of extrauterine life, babyhood; roughly, the first two years of life. 2. In law, minority, the period prior to the twenty-first birthday.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The state or time of being an infant: childhood: the beginning of anything: inexpressiveness: want of utterance: inability to speak. "So darkly do the Saxon Annals deliver their meaning with more than wonted infancy."-Milton.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The state of being an infant, or the time; the period till the age of twenty-one; the early period of existence.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Early childhood. Childhood. It generally includes the age from birth till the seventh year. See Age.
By Robley Dunglison
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Early childhood, before the child can talk and walk.
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In English law, the age of one's minority. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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