cradlehood

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noun

infancy

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Meanings

nouncradlehood (plural cradlehoods)

plural cradlehoods

  1. infancy
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    In this Yarmouth as Maſter Camden ſaith, there were ſeauentie inhabitants, or houſholders, that payed ſcot and lot in the time of Edward the Confeſſor, but a Chronographycal Latine table, which they haue hanging vp in their Guild hall, of all their tranſmutations from their Cradlehoode, infringeth this a little, and flatters her, ſhee is a great deale yonger, […]

    1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 9

Origin

From cradle + -hood.

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APA

cradlehood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cradlehood

MLA

“cradlehood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cradlehood. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cradlehood,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cradlehood.

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