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. 1. Sam. xii. 2.
Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott.
The commencement; the first period. The childhood of our joy. Shak. Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.
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