3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Infancy \In"fan*cy\, n. [L. infantia: cf F. enfance. See
{Infant}.]
1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of
life; early childhood.
The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. --Milton.
Their love in early infancy began. --Dryden.
2. The first age of anything the beginning or early period
of existence; as the infancy of an art.
The infancy and the grandeur of Rome. --Arbuthnot.
3. (Law) The state or condition of one under age, or under
the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
infancy
n 1: the early stage of growth or development [syn: {babyhood}, {early
childhood}]
2: the earliest state of immaturity [syn: {babyhood}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
INFANCY, n. The period of our lives when according to Wordsworth,
"Heaven lies about us." The world begins lying about us pretty soon
afterward.
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