INFANCY
ADJECTIVES“
► CUNICULAR pert. to the cradle or to infancy → 1676 obs.
► INFANTILE pert. to infancy or infants → 1696
INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► SINCE YOU WERE THE HEIGHT OF TEN-PENNYWORTH OF BRASS since you were very small; since one’s earliest infancy (ten piled penny-pieces)→ 1876 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► ANGEL INFANCY infancy considered as a period of unspoiled innocence, virtue, or purity → 1650 chiefly poetic usage
► BABEHOOD infancy → 1548 arch.
► BABESHIP infancy → 1542 obs.
► BABY AGE infancy, babyhood → 1617
► BABYDOM babyhood; infancy → 1864
► BAIRNHEID childhood, infancy → 1393 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► BAIRN-LILE early infancy → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BARNAGE childhood, infancy → c1325 obs.
► CRADLE-HOOD babyhood, infancy → 1599
► INFANCE infancy → 1400 obs.
► INFANTAGE infancy → 1866
► INFANTHOOD infancy → 1862
► INFANTILIZATION a prolonging or perpetuating a state of infancy → 1939
► MILK the period of infancy → 1529 obs.
► PAPHOOD infancy → 1837
► TEAT, THE the period of infancy → 1350
► TOTTLEDOM the sphere of toddlers; babyhood, infancy → 1889
VERBS
► CRADLE to nurture, shelter, or rear in infancy → 1613
► SHORT-COAT to be developed beyond the stage of infancy → 1860 obs.
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