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Example sentences for "infancy"

Lexicographically close words:
infamie; infamies; infamous; infamously; infamy; infano; infanoj; infans; infant; infanta
  1. Proctitis, the inflammation of the rectal and anal canals, is the most common disease that afflicts the human creature from infancy to old age; and colitis is only the extension of proctitis to the colon.

  2. It deranges more lives, from infancy to old age, than any other pathological condition that can be named.

  3. Very frequently, as stated in the first chapter, auto-infection begins in infancy and slowly but steadily progresses, but it may not be before adult age is reached and one or more organs are seriously diseased that it becomes apparent to all.

  4. But the light of God's revealing shines still upon the world, even as the sunlight streams upon it steadfastly as of old; "it is not given to a few men in the infancy of mankind to monopolise inspiration and to bar God out of the soul.

  5. Thus in early infancy a chain is forged round the child's neck which fetters him throughout life, and the unconsciousness of the baby is taken advantage of to lay him under terrible penalties.

  6. That any man, at least any man bred from his infancy to change his residence, and accustomed to different climates and to foreign nations, will fix by choice in that country where he finds the worst reception, is hardly to be imagined.

  7. Edouard, though delicate from his birth, had nevertheless passed the trying years of infancy and early adolescence; he was them nearly fourteen.

  8. It was the sudden apparition of Friar Robert, who followed to the court of Rome his young pupil, who from infancy had been Joan's destined husband, which thus shattered all the designs of the Catanese and seriously menaced her future.

  9. Seguin calls "the building mania in the infancy of peoples," and that "to make a house is the universal form of unguided play.

  10. Now, fear is from our earliest infancy the 'never-failing companion and offspring of ignorance.

  11. He hopes that, as mankind improves, such practices as infanticide will not be necessary; but he remarks that it would be happier for a child to perish in infancy than to spend seventy years in vice and misery.

  12. No pen can do justice to the character of Lincoln, for the world will never know of the trials, embarrassments, and misgivings which beset him from his infancy in the backwoods to his tomb in Springfield.

  13. We are assured that from his infancy he manifested a cruel, reserved, and timid disposition, and an ardent love of liberty and independence.

  14. This teaching is pertinent to the case of children of Christian families, to those formally attached to the Church by their baptism in infancy and by attendance on her public rites.

  15. What they gave out for more advanced doctrine, he treats as the "weak rudiments," belonging to the infancy of the sons of God (ch.

  16. Perhaps our most heart-rending experience was with Triptolemus, taken from his mother in such tender infancy that we could not teach him to lap milk or even suck it from the finger.

  17. I cannot tell whether his nursery was set in an apple tree or elm or oak or pine, nor whether it was wind or boy or other untoward circumstance of nestling life that cast his helpless infancy adrift upon the world.

  18. Having been from his infancy accustomed to no other conversation than about winning and losing money, he had acquired the idea that, to bet successfully, was the summit of all human ambition.

  19. Bred up from infancy to suffer no restraint, and to give an unbounded loose to the indulgence of their passions, they know not what it is to forgive those who have injured them.

  20. Bred up from their infancy to a life of equal hardiness with the wild animals, they are almost as robust in their constitutions.

  21. From his infancy he has seen people of all sorts and conditions, rich and poor, ignorant and learned, honorable and mean.

  22. We will assume at least that education means the whole bringing up of a child from infancy to maturity, not simply his school training.

  23. According to the theory of the culture epochs, the child, in its growth from infancy to maturity, is an epitome of the world's history and growth in a profoundly significant sense for the purpose of education.

  24. The stock of ideas and feelings which a child from its infancy has gathered from its peculiar history and home surroundings is the primitive basis of its personality.

  25. In infancy the ego, the personality, is consciously realized in one person sooner, in another later.

  26. This superior aptitude to profit by instruction is doubtless produced by their acquaintance from infancy with the manners, customs, and language of their masters.

  27. Querulous complaint is worthy only of the infancy of understanding.

  28. Oh should he be living, should I find him, and should he be at present all that his infancy promised, God of heaven and earth!

  29. As he advanced through the years of infancy and youth, his form appeared more comely than that of his brothers; in look, in speech, and in manners he was more graceful than they.

  30. He had been brought up from his infancy at Rome, and having been taught the Roman manners, had contracted a most strict amity with them.

  31. In the shadows of that far remote infancy of the world where from cave-dweller and mere predatory animal man by slow degrees moved toward a higher development, the story of woman goes side by side with his.

  32. As an approach to modern psychotherapy, however, it was in its infancy fifty years ago.

  33. The need to punish himself for his guilt feelings, the desire to abandon an adult adjustment and {223} return to the protective blanket of infancy in order to be taken care of.

  34. I am on matter-of-fact ground when I point out that the assumption that even infancy begins with such highly discriminated particulars as those enumerated is not only highly dubious but has been challenged by eminent psychologists.

  35. So passed the infancy of Mr. Bonaparte, of Corsica.

  36. It is the testimony of all who knew him in his infancy that Napoleon was a good child.

  37. Their fleet is a formidable one; the Biscayan mariners for boldness and skill are unsurpassed, tossed as they are from infancy in the cradle of their bay, where the wide-spreading Atlantic is for ever wroth that it can go no further.

  38. From her infancy a tool in the hands of unprincipled men; forced to marry a man utterly worthless in every respect; almost without one true friend, without a soul for her woman’s heart to cling to.

  39. Very noteworthy is the legend, recorded both by Nonnus and Firmicus, that in his infancy Dionysus occupied for a short time the throne of his father Zeus.

  40. In his infancy the goddess hid him in a chest, which she gave in charge to Persephone, queen of the nether world.

  41. A great many temptations for this kind of lie can be entirely avoided if your child feels from earliest infancy that you always treat him justly.

  42. A child who from infancy has been accustomed to going to sleep in the dark and suddenly develops a fear of it ought to be indulged to the extent of having a light for a few minutes to show him that there is nothing there to be afraid of.

  43. By example and precept we were trained from infancy in this manner of speech.

  44. According to general Syrian custom, in earliest infancy a child is not really clothed, it is only swaddled.

  45. In early infancy the little ones are carried in the arms.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infancy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beginning; birth; childhood; cradle; disability; disqualification; greenness; imbecility; immaturity; inability; inadequacy; incapability; incapacity; inception; incipiency; incompetence; inefficiency; ineptitude; inexperience; infancy; inferiority; insufficiency; minority; nonage; origin; origination; parturition; pregnancy; wardship; youth