Definition of Childlier

1. childly [adj] - See also: childly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Childlier

childhood type tuberculosis
childhoodless
childhoodlike
childhoods
childie
childing
childish
childishly
childishness
childishnesses
childism
childless
childlessly
childlessness
childlessnesses
childlier (current term)
childliest
childlike
childlikeness
childlikenesses
childliness
childlovers
childly
childmind
childminded
childminder
childminders
childminding

Literary usage of Childlier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"An' Pat, that's a rale good son, and has been all the days of his life, It's the quare thanks I'm givin' him now, to be starvin' the childlier and wife. ..."

2. The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland: And Choice Selections in Prose from by Richard Nagle (1887)
"Poor Pat put no bush in the gap on me when he was going,' ses she. ' Of coorse—an' why not? — he cut out their own share for his childlier, an' they'd be no ..."

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