childship
nounEtymology From child + -ship.
1
Rare The state or relation of being a child with living parents; childhood as defined by relations rather than by age.
- Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)
2
The set of children (offspring) that a family raises.
- Coordinate terms
- childhood