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Definition of Infancies
1. infancy [n] - See also: infancy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infancies
Literary usage of Infancies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"Roman more or less slavishly copied) may have had its infancies; but we possess
... Nor is it even possible that these infancies, granting their existence, ..."
2. The Recapitulation Theory and Human Infancy by Percy Erwin Davidson (1914)
"Infants today resemble the infancies of their ancestors just as adults ...
Perhaps it had an adaptive value in earlier infancies. ..."
3. Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical by Arthur Collins, Egerton Brydges (1812)
"The seven daughters by the first marriage were, the Ladies Elizabeth and Catharine,
who died in their infancies; the Ladies, Elizabeth, married to Walter. ..."
4. The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record: For the Year (1855)
"But pleasantry apart—and I desire to say nothing offensive—I think the circumstances
of the two connexions in their infancies, were not quite so unequal as ..."
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