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Definition of Childhoods
1. childhood [n] - See also: childhood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Childhoods
Literary usage of Childhoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910 by Martin Green (1880)
"... I Cedar Hill childhoods 1860-70 . . that secret hostility natural between
brothers, the roots of which—little nursery rivalries—sometimes toughen and ..."
2. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"Motion made for espousing Anne Cecil and Philip Sidney in their childhoods.
Elisabeth, the lord treasurer's other daughter, married to the lord Went- ..."
3. The Wine of the Puritans: A Study of Present-day America by Van Wyck Brooks (1908)
"... indeed—Mr Rockefeller considered symbolically—Eena, meena, mina, mo— Two
childhoods—A bowl of daffodils—"La Patrie"—What we left in Europe. ..."
4. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1895)
"TWO childhoods. THE concrete form of the doctrine of this chapter is to be found
in the incident of the young man who came to Jesus Christ and asked how he ..."
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