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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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... that the Hurons were upon them in force. They had found time, however, for an act of atrocious cruelty. They planted stakes in the bark houses of St. Ignace, and bound to them those of their prisoners whom they meant to sacrifice, male and female, from old age to infancy, husbands, mothers, and children, side by side. Then, as they retreated, they set the town on fire, and laughed with savage glee at the shrieks of anguish that rose from ...

— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

... her objection to Louis' overtures to the Old Church was that they increased her suspicion of his snobbishness. No person nourished from infancy in chapel can bring himself to believe that the chief motive of church-goers is not the snobbish motive of social propriety. And dissenters are so convinced that, if chapel means salvation in the next world, church means salvation in this, that to this day, regardless ...

— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... she wished she could not express, even to herself. Her sensitive nature was keenly alive to every slight impression of kindness or of coldness;—and the intense longing for love, which had been the pulse of her inmost being since her earliest infancy, and which had filled her with such passionate devotion to her father that her grief at his loss had been almost abnormally profound and despairing, made her feel poignantly every little incident ...

— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... that I passed my infancy and my youth; and here I now stood, at the age of seventeen, quite unconscious that the world contained aught fairer and brighter than that gloomy valley with its ...

— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... was full of golden light. Primroses were everywhere, and in the more open spaces celandines starred the ground with deeper yellow. In a month the glades between the trees would be carpeted by bluebells. But there were no bluebells yet. Spring was still in its infancy. The great oaks that skirted the wood stretched bare wintry boughs ...

— Miss Merivale's Mistake • Mrs. Henry Clarke

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