childe
noun
a youth of noble birth.
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childe
1 American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Archaic.
Childe
2
American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
childe
British
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Etymology
Origin of childe
Spelling variant of child
Example Sentences
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These rudimentes of modestye and vertue the childe lerneth before he can speake, which because they sticke fast vntil he be elder, they profit somwhat to true religiõ.
From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard
Baptized Subpena, a man childe found at the Subpena office in Chancery Lane.”—St.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.
“If the offerer be content with these articles, than let his childe be admytted.”
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
Always thorough and exact, Lyly is careful to begin at the beginning, informing us at first "that the childe shoulde be true borne and no bastarde."
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
Tusser, some three hundred or more years ago, declared that "The greatest preferments that childe we can giue, Is learning and nurture, to traine him to liue."
From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)
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