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Second childhood   /sˈɛkənd tʃˈaɪldhˌʊd/   Listen
noun
Childhood  n.  
1.
The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. "I have walked before you from my childhood."
2.
Children, taken collectively. (R.) "The well-governed childhood of this realm."
3.
The commencement; the first period. "The childhood of our joy."
Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.





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"Second childhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... the latter society is the best proof of the wisdom which guided the councils of the Royal. At present, the various societies exist with no feelings of rivalry or hostility, each pursuing its separate objects, and all uniting in deploring with filial regret, the second childhood of their common parent, and the evil councils by which that ...
— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage
... eccentric egotism. That is a risk which I am obliged to run everywhere in this paper and especially on this page. As I have said, the whole business of actually putting a paper together is a new game for me to play, to amuse my second childhood; and it combines some of the characters of a jigsaw and a crossword puzzle. But at least I am called upon to do a great many different sorts of things; and am not tied down to that trivial specialism ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... not earlier be relieved from our dreadful situation. My father had become strong enough to go about and take care of himself, but his mind was feebler, and he seemed more like an old man in his second childhood than one in the prime of life as he was. He was not troublesome to any one, nor was there any fear of trusting him by himself. He was only like an imbecile old man—and such even the ...
— Lizzy Glenn - or, The Trials of a Seamstress • T. S. Arthur
... poisoned arrows, and of clubs, on which, with the microscope, may be detected the hairs of missionary martyrs. In fine weather, of course, these attractions would be advertised in vain; but the fact is, our whole community has been reduced by the cruelty of the elements to a sort of second childhood; the rain which permeates everything is ...
— Some Private Views • James Payn
... similar evidences that man has ever reached the summit of civilisation on this continent, or search, without our reward, for the path by which he has made the downward journey to his present condition of second childhood." ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper


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