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Another word for infancy

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Noun

  1. The state or period of being under legal age

    See also:

    youth

    law

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Another word for infancy

Noun

  1. The time of life's beginning

    See also:

    childhood

  2. Any period of beginning

    See also:

    origin

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Sentence Examples

  • His two sons had died in infancy, and his successor was his only legitimate child, Mary.

  • The Birth and Infancy of John and of Jesus.

  • In the infancy of the Roman republic its revenues were of the kind usual in such communities.

  • Factories are still in infancy, but silk is spun.

  • By her first husband she had no children, by her second a son who died in infancy, and a daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, who became the mother of Henry IV.

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