Crossword-Solution: INFANCY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Infancy | n. | The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. |
| Infancy | n. | The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art. |
| Infancy | n. | The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “INFANCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the earliest state of immaturity | 1 answer |
| infantilism | 1 answer |
| infanthood | 1 answer |
| early childhood | 1 answer |
| Very early childhood | 1 answer |
| Undeveloped state | 2 answers |
| Early stage | 4 answers |
| status pupillaris | 5 answers |
| childish years | 5 answers |
| minority | 6 answers |
| Early stages | 6 answers |
| babyhood | 6 answers |
| STAGE of life | 6 answers |
| FIRST glance | 7 answers |
| nonage | 8 answers |
| leading strings | 10 answers |
| Rising generation? | 10 answers |
| tender age | 11 answers |
| awkward age | 13 answers |
| childhood | 16 answers |
| loss of control | 17 answers |
| Helplessness | 18 answers |
| powerlessness | 18 answers |
| First step? | 19 answers |
| inauguration | 31 answers |
| cradle | 31 answers |
| Growing pains. | 34 answers |
| Nativity | 35 answers |
| Adolescence | 45 answers |
| emergence | 58 answers |
| Age | 64 answers |
| Immaturity | 72 answers |
| Beginning | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with INFANCY (5)
She had rocked him in infancy, attended him in childhood, served him through life, and at his death wiped from his icy brow the cold death-sweat, and closed his eyes forever.
From the contours of her figure in its upper part, she must have had a beautiful neck and shoulders; but it may be stated that since her infancy nobody had ever seen them.
Planted deep, in the town’s earliest infancy and childhood, by these two earnest and energetic men, the race has ever since subsisted here; always, too, in respectability; never, so far as I have known, disgraced by a single unworthy member; but seldom or never, on the other hand, after the first two generations, performing any memorable deed, or so much as putting forward a claim to public notice.
From that time seldom have I ceased to eye Thy infancy, thy childhood, and thy youth, Thy manhood last, though yet in private bred; Till, at the ford of Jordan, whither all 510 Flocked to the Baptist, I among the rest (Though not to be baptized), by voice from Heaven Heard thee pronounced the Son of God beloved.
And because we have all to pass through a state of infancy to manhood, and have been of necessity, for a length of time, governed by our desires and preceptors (whose dictates were frequently conflicting, while neither perhaps always counseled us for the best), I farther concluded that it is almost impossible that our judgments can be so correct or solid as they would have been, had our reason been mature from the moment of our birth, and had we always been guided by it alone.
Quotes with INFANCY (3)
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be…
He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he saw them he knew that he had always known them and realized what part each one of them had played at many an hour in his life when he had supposed himself alone, so that now he could say to them, one by one, not ‘Who are you?’ but ‘So it was you all the time.’ All that they were and said at this meeting woke memories. The dim consciousness of friends about h…
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1982–2022).