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

There are all these childrens here, and each one has his or her own big story inside, and each one has the childness so intrigueful, along with the absence of so much.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

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

From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George

He paused and looked at her, and then all at once something in the utter childness of her beauty seemed to puncture his anger like an inflated tire, and render him helpless, uncertain, utterly fatuous.

From Flappers and Philosophers by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

From effort vain, sick foil, and bootless strife, I shall, with childness fresh, look up to thee; Thou, seeing thy child with age encumbered sore, Wilt round him bend thine arm more carefully.

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George

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 Hope of the Gospel by MacDonald, George