Childhood: alternatives and connections

A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

the doctrine and practice of a 19th century Iranian sect that affirmed the progressiveness of revelation, held that no revelation was…

The state or period of infancy.

the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.

The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the…

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…

Infancy, or very early life.

Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now com…

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…