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Childness

Childness \Child"ness\, n. The manner characteristic of a child. [Obs.] ``Varying childness.''
--Shak.

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childness

n. (context obsolete English) The manner that is characteristic of a child.

Usage examples of "childness".

He paused and looked at her, and then all at once something in the utter childness of her beauty seemed to puncture his anger like an inflated tire, and render him helpless, uncertain, utterly fatuous.