Definition of Childhaod
Child"hood (chīld"h&oocr;d),
n. [AS. cildhād; cild child
+ -hād. See Child, and -hood.]
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.
1. Sam. xii. 2.
2. Children, taken collectively.
[R.]
The well-governed childhood of this
realm.
Sir. W. Scott.
3. The commencement; the first
period.
The childhood of our joy.
Shak.
Second childhood, the state of being
feeble and incapable from old age.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the
idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin
of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- the state of being a child
- the time when one is a child - between infancy and puberty
- (by extension) the early stages of development of something
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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