Infancy Definition

ĭnfən-sē
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noun
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The earliest period of childhood, especially before the ability to walk has been acquired.
American Heritage Medicine
The state or period of being an infant; babyhood; very early childhood.
Webster's New World
The beginning or earliest stage of anything.
Webster's New World
The state or period of being a minor; period before the age of legal majority, usually eighteen; minority.
Webster's New World
The earliest stage of childhood.
Webster's New World Law
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infancy
Plural:
infancies

Infancy Sentence Examples

  • His two sons had died in infancy, and his successor was his only legitimate child, Mary.

  • Factories are still in infancy, but silk is spun.

  • Mark's narratives of the sepulture by Joseph of Arirathea and of the empty tomb are taken as posterior to St Paul; the narratives of the infancy in Matthew and Luke as later still.

  • Of repentance it would seem that she knew as little as of fear, having been trained from her infancy in a religion where the Decalogue was supplanted by the Creed.

  • We must learn to issue from ourselves, transport ourselves back to other times, and become children again in order to comprehend the infancy of the human race.

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