Infancy

Definition of Infancy

In´fan`cy
n.1.
1.The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.
The babe yet lies in smiling infancy.
- Milton.
Their love in early infancy began.
- Dryden.
2.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.
- Arbuthnot.
3.(Law) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

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babyhood, beginnings, birth, callowness, childhood, commencement, cradle, dawn, dewiness, disability, disablement, disqualification, early, emergence, freshman year, freshness, genesis, greenness, imbecility, immaturity, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incompetence, incompetency, incunabula, inefficiency, ineptitude, inexperience, inferiority, initial, insufficiency, juiciness, juniority, juvenility, legal incapacity, minority, my Angel-infancy, nascence, nascency, nativity, nonage, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, rawness, rise, sappiness, stages, start, the nursery, undevelopment, unfitness, unripeness, wardship, youth
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