cradlehood
English
Etymology
cradle + -hood.
Noun
cradlehood (plural cradlehoods)
- infancy
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: Printed [by Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942, page 9:
- 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, […]