childness

American  

[chahyld-nis] / ˈtʃaɪld nɪs /

noun

Archaic.

1. the quality of being a child.

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Etymology

Origin of childness

First recorded in 1605–15; child + -ness

Example Sentences

For God is not only the father of the child, but of the childhood that constitutes him a child, therefore the childness is of the divine nature.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, verily, it would be a low thing for any child to do his father's will in the hope that his father would reward him for it; but it is quite another thing for a father whose child endeavours to please him, to let him know that he recognizes his childness toward him, and will be fatherly good to him.

From Project Gutenberg

The major had never been properly a child, but now lived his childness over again with Mark in a better fashion.

From Project Gutenberg

What if the rain be falling, and the wind blowing; what if we stand alone, or, more painful still, have some dear one beside us, sharing our outness; what even if the window be not shining, because of the curtains of good inscrutable drawn across it; let us think to ourselves, or say to our friend, 'God is; Jesus is not dead; nothing can be going wrong, however it may look so to hearts unfinished in childness.'

From Project Gutenberg

He must not only see the ideal child in the child he receives—that reality of loveliness which constitutes true childhood, but must perceive that the child is like Jesus, or rather, that the Lord is like the child, and may be embraced, yea, is embraced, by every heart childlike enough to embrace a child for the sake of his childness.

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