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infant
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infant
1. Law another word for minor
2. Brit a young schoolchild, usually under the age of seven
3. Law of or relating to the legal status of infancy

infant [′in·fənt]
(anthropology)
A baby; child under 2 years of age.
An individual under legal age.


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Premature infants are thought to be at greater risk than more mature infants, other children, or adults, and outbreaks of disease have occurred in hospital units for newborns (1,2, 4, 6, 8-10,12).
Our curiously mature infant was backed by a disproportionately small china Virgin, which had been my grandmother's, and was usually in our bedroom, and by a Saint Joseph who stared straight ahead in rather splendid indifference, holding his staff with the lily.
 
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