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Webster 1913 Edition
Childhood
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. Shakespeare
Second childhood
, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.
Webster 1828 Edition
Childhood
CHILDHOOD
, n.1.
The state of a child, or the time in which persons are children, including the time from birth to puberty. But in a more restricted sense, the state or time from infancy to puberty. Thus we say, infancy, childhood, youth and manhood.Childhood and youth are vanity. Eccl. 11.
2.
The properties of a child.