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childhood

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the time of person's life when they are a child the state of a child between infancy and adolescence [syn: puerility ]

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Childhood, , subtitled A journal of global child research , is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research in the field of childhood studies . It was established in 1993 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Norwegian ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) The state of being a child.

Usage examples of childhood.

It was these frequent glimmerings of the man underneath the childhood he was shucking that swept Angevine with true passion for him, that stained her vague parental warmth with something more hard and base and breathless.

Consequently, his relations to the wooers are newly exacerbated, particularly with Antinous, the most intimidating of the lot, who is only a little older than Telemachus but just old enough actually to remember Odysseus from his own childhood.

There are in the modern world an admirable class of persons who really make protest on behalf of that antiqua pulchritudo of which Augustine spoke, who do long for the old feasts and formalities of the childhood of the world.

Two days ago she had awoken with the glum realization that this was the last full day she would spend in her childhood home.

Satan here held his Babylonish court, and in the blood of stainless childhood the leprous limbs of phosphorescent Lilith were laved.

For childhood Balder is not dead, and Hela gives Again her prey us often as a child is born.

Yet our understanding of undisclosed childhood sexual abuse and its long-term effects is limited in regard to gender difference and behavioral outcomes.

Venerable Orsola Benincasa, whose sixteenth-century childhood was visited by innumerable misinterpreted ecstasies, she might have been bruised black-and-blue, pricked with needles, and burned with exposed flames to rouse her.

As she stepped across the doorsill she thought of an old ballad her own mother had sung in her childhood, of how, at night, the birds talked among themselves when no human creature was near.

Many of the tales of the weird, horrifying, and supernatural written by Bradbury are derived from his childhood fears and are set in midwestern Waukegan.

Through my childhood, they had been on display in a breakfront at Tealing, hardly ever used.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and stood there for a moment thinking about Max, thinking of the hell his childhood must have been - with no mother, the boys of Come Lucky making fun of him and tying him on to broncs and bulls, having their own cruel stampede, and then the boy killed and a girl crying Rape and the town trying to lynch him.

Through the days of their childhood they were inseparable, roaming the lanes between Ballybay and Carrickmacross, the daring Sean leading the wide-eyed Jamie into scrapes and adventures and pranks.

The triumvirate of childhood plagues a freckled carrottop with a dimple.

PREFACE CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE CASANOVA AT DUX An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons I The Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history.