INFANCY


Meaning of INFANCY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

early

In my case the signs were apparently unmistakable even in my early infancy .

■ VERB

die

They had two sons and five daughters, two of whom died in infancy .

He fathered eight children, two of whom died in infancy .

Two of their five sons and one of their four daughters died in infancy .

Several children were born to the couple, but all of them died in infancy .

Their two children died in infancy .

Of 23 children with the disease studied worldwide in 1987, 15 died in infancy .

They had one son and a daughter who died in infancy .

survive

Most of these babies, put out to wet nurses, failed to survive infancy .

Poor children who survived infancy were predictably shorter and thinner than others and the differential widened as they grew older.

Two younger brothers did not survive infancy .

No information survives about Charles's infancy .

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