Word Finder - infancy

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The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).

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The state of being an infant.

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An early stage in the development of anything.

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Space tourism is still in its infancy.

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The state of being a minor.

His two sons had died in infancy, and his successor was his only legitimate child, Mary.

Factories are still in infancy, but silk is spun.

Mark's narratives of the sepulture by Joseph of Arirathea and of the empty tomb are taken as posterior to St Paul; the narratives of the infancy in Matthew and Luke as later still.

Of repentance it would seem that she knew as little as of fear, having been trained from her infancy in a religion where the Decalogue was supplanted by the Creed.

We must learn to issue from ourselves, transport ourselves back to other times, and become children again in order to comprehend the infancy of the human race.

The industries of the United States were in their infancy.

The scientific study of the economics of local administration is, however, in its infancy, and requires to be taken up in earnest by economists.

He may, also, have had in view the fact that he has prefixed a narrative of the birth and infancy of Jesus and of John and so begun the history at what he considered to be its true point of departure; to this he plainly alludes when he says that he has "traced the course of all things accurately from the first."

He had married a wealthy Spanish lady named Therasia; this happy union was clouded by the death in infancy of their only child - a bereavement which, combined with the many disasters by which the empire was being visited, did much to foster in them that world-weariness to which they afterwards gave such emphatic expression.

The child was brought up under a rigid system of nursing, physical, moral and intellectual; kept without toys, not seldom whipped, watched day and night, but trained from infancy in music, drawing, reading aloud and observation of natural objects.

It gives nothing but the barest facts, excepting three anecdotes about his infancy, his school days and his marriage.

Ostrich-farming was in its infancy, and agriculture but little developed.

Her last act was to appoint Biren regent during the infancy of her great-nephew.

The development of 5-HT7 receptor antagonists is still in its infancy, however this is expected to soon change.

For reasons above indicated the whole subject is in its infancy.

Accustomed from her infancy to the monastic seclusion of the terem, or women's quarter, Eudoxia's mental horizon did not extend much beyond her embroidery-frame or her illuminated service-book.

We were amazed that any child would survive childbirth or infancy in these conditions.

Elections for devolved Nations The UK's devolved parliaments are still in their infancy.

Still in its infancy is the use of wood as chemical feedstock.

Sajid Humayun Imitation, tutoring and tool-use in human infancy.

When these words were first written the Church, under the New Testament Dispensation, was still in its spiritual infancy.

She became aware that she had on her hands someone not far removed from helpless infancy.

The idea of transporting natural gas was first considered by Holts in the 1960's when the carriage of LNG was in its infancy.

In stressful social situations the adult can react from a pre-verbal level of infancy.

From it came the three archaic metopes now in the museum at Palermo, which are of great importance in the history of the development of art, showing Greek sculpture in its infancy.

Probably the first suggestion for an elevated railway was made by Colonel Stevens, of Hoboken, New Jersey, as early as 1831, when the whole art of railway construction was in its infancy.

By her, six years later, he had one son, who died in infancy.

Mr and Mrs Gladstone had four sons and four daughters, of whom one died in infancy.

The king's two other sons both died in infancy.

All three had children, but the duke of Clarence's two baby daughters died in infancy, in 1819 and 1821; and the duke of Cambridge's son George, born on the 26th of March 1819, was only two months old when the birth of the duke of Kent's daughter put her before him in the succession.

The edict of Wielun (1424), remarkable as the first anti-heretical decree issued in Poland, crushed the new sect in its infancy.

Her mother, Agatha Southill, was a reputed witch, and Ursula from her infancy was regarded by the neighbours as "the Devil's child."

In his infancy he had heard so much talk about the villainies of the Whigs, and the dangers of the Church, that he had become a furious partisan when he could scarcely speak.

Frederick, who succeeded Albert as German king, and was soon crowned emperor as Frederick III., acted as guardian for Sigismund of Tirol, who was a minor, and also became regent of Austria in consequence of the Regency of the infancy of Ladislaus.

Of six children born from their union, two daughters alone survived infancy.

He was passionately attached to his wife and children; and, while his friend Beccadelli signed the licentious verses of Hermaphroditus, his own Muse celebrated in liberal but loyal strains the pleasures of conjugal affection, the charm of infancy and the sorrows of a husband and a father in the loss of those he loved.

Having lost his father in infancy he passed part of his youth with the marquess of Argyll at Inveraray, leaving his guardian about 1647 to take up his duties as chief of the clan Cameron, a position in which he succeeded his grandfather.

But Miguel died in infancy, and his inheritance passed to the Habsburgs.

During his infancy he was taken from the care of his mother by the empress Elizabeth, whose ill-judged fondness is believed to have injured his health.

He received the appanage of Dauphine at his birth, and was thus the first of the princes of France to bear the title of dauphin from infancy.

His father was raised to the peerage in his son's infancy, and was made earl of Rivers in 1466.

During his infancy his parents removed to Fountain county, -Indiana, near Veedersburg.

Painting and sculpture, like modern Rumanian architecture, are still in their infancy.

Henry had by this time several children, of whom the eldest, Arthur, had been proposed in infancy for a bridegroom to Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon.

Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC Libri duo, is written in a bombastic and rhetorical style, and is rather a panegyric of the greatness of Rome, whose life is divided into the four periods of infancy, youth, manhood and old age.

Florence, the last child who survived infancy was born in 1869.

Public filings by JAMDAT and SEVEN Networks are a signal that the market for wireless chemical raw material applications is exiting infancy.

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

The relative infancy of new services means that the industry still has a real opportunity to learn from its mistakes of the past.

They had all been " received into the church " in early infancy, that is, baptized.