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babeship

noun

Etymology

From babe + -ship.

  1. inherited from *babô✻
  2. inherited from *babō✻
  3. inherited from *baba✻ — “boy, child”
  4. inherited from babe
  5. suffixed as babeship — “babe + ship”

Definitions

  1. Infancy

    Infancy; babyhood.

    • Neither was he aſhamed to confeſſe that he had through errour doen amyſſe in many thinges, by reaſon that he had not euen from his tendre babeſhip ben nouſled in the preceptes of philoſophie.

  2. A baby.

    • It was toward evening of that warm, August afternoon that the farmer, passing, spied my babeship, as bare as cupid, perched there in the hay.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA