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Word Meanings - DEFILIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.

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  • CHILDSHIP
    The state or relation of being a child.
  • CHILDISHNESS
    The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
  • CHILDED
    Furnished with a child.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • CHILDISH
    1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
  • CHILD STUDY
    A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
  • CHILDCROWING
    The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
  • ABSTRACTIONAL
    Pertaining to abstraction.
  • CHILDBED
    The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
  • ABSTRACTIONIST
    An idealist. Emerson.
  • CHILDISHLY
    In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
  • CHILDREN
    pl. of Child.
  • CHILDING
    Bearing Children; productive; fruitful. Shak.
  • CHILDHOOD
    1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2. 2. Children, taken collectively. The well-governed childhood of this
  • CHILDNESS
    The manner characteristic of a child. "Varying childness." Shak.
  • CHILDBEARING
    The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.
  • CHILD
    1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants. 2. A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as,
  • CHILDLIKE
    Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker. Note: Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity;
  • CHILDE
    A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • STEPCHILD
    1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. 2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
  • GREAT-GRANDCHILD
    The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • UNCHILD
    1. To bereave of children; to make childless. Shak. 2. To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child. Bp. Hall.

 

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