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Childhood   /tʃˈaɪldhˌʊd/   Listen
noun
Childhood  n.  
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."
2.
Children, taken collectively. (R.) "The well-governed childhood of this realm."
3.
The commencement; the first period. "The childhood of our joy."
Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.





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"Childhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... of my memory as from an illness? Why, without my memory I would not be myself, because every man is built up of his memories and really lives only as long as he goes through life like a loaded camera. Supposing I could not tell where I lived in my childhood, what color my father's eyes and my mother's hair were, and supposing at any moment that I were called upon to give an account, I could not turn the leaves of the past and point to the right picture, how quick they would be to diagnose my case as feeblemindedness, or imbecility. ...
— Men in War • Andreas Latzko
... days he had read of meetings in such places which even now would hardly bear thinking of. He went on thinking of them, however, until he reached home, and particularly of one which catches most people's fancy at some time of their childhood.' Now I saw in my dream that Christian had gone but a very little way when he saw a foul fiend coming over the field to meet him.' 'What should I do now,' he thought, 'if I looked back and caught sight of a black figure sharply defined ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • Montague Rhodes James
... the mother prayed over it this prayer:—'O God, if thou wilt not let me be a mother, I have one refuge: I will go back and be a child: I will be thy child more than ever. My mother-heart will find relief in childhood towards its Father. For is it not the same nature that makes the true mother and the true child? Is it not the same thought blossoming upward and blossoming downward? So there is God the Father and God the Son. Thou wilt keep my little ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 1 • George MacDonald
... 'Fighting with the 7th Royal Fusiliers.' It was composed in the early 'nineties, and produced such an overwhelming rush of recruits that the authorities could easily, had they so chosen, have raised several additional battalions." The writer of the present article remembers in his childhood to have learnt the following lines from his old nurse, who was the widow of a corporal in the army employed in the ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring
... voice of childish laughter, hushed is childhood's merry tone, the fireside Grand'ther Baldwin and ...
— Ballads • Horatio Alger, Jr.


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