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infant

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1. infant - Noun

2. infant - Adjective

3. infant - Verb

Meaning

A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.

A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

Same as Infante.

Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant. Ambrose

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. Denis Diderot

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. Leo Buscaglia

What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew. John Dryden

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. William Blake

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime. Lydia Sigourney

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