infancy
IPA: ˈɪnfʌnsi
noun
- The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
- The state of being an infant.
- (figurative) An early stage in the development of anything.
- (law) The state of being a minor.
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Examples of "infancy" in Sentences
- Hw can he be my last when his infancy is already over?
- Support for at-risk families and children both prenatal and in infancy is needed.
- Or more accurately, I think that's true ONLY because so many boys died in infancy or childhood in 1900.
- Juvenile polyps can develop in infancy and into adulthood, but most individuals with juvenile polyposis syndrome will have polyps by the age of 20 years.
- The overall prognosis of CMA in infancy is good, with a remission rate of 85 or 90% by 3 years of age (Høst & Halken 1990, Høst 2002), non-IgE-mediated reactions being the quickest to recover (Vanto et al. 2004) ….
- Unless perhaps the sixth year of the reign of Ezekias, in which Samaria was taken, they think is here called his infancy, that is, the infancy of his reign, not of his age; which even a fool must see to be hard and forced.
- He depicted a version of his scarred but curiously often blissful family life: nine siblings (three of whom died in infancy), a drained and loving mother, and a tortured, violent-tempered father who died when Davies was 6; his burgeoning homosexuality and struggle with his Catholic faith; the solace and rapture that the cinema bestowed on him.
- 'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate.
- Historically however rural areas were less subject to epidemics (population was less dense) and provided most people with at least adequate nutrition so death rates tended to be lower, and the rural areas had a population surplus (not enough farmland for everyone) so younger sons, not having died in infancy as many urban children might, took off for the cities to seek their fortunes.
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