babyismn.

1798 M. Hays Appeal to Men Great Brit. 97 They would behold with astonishment and indignation, the arts which had been employed, to keep them in a state of perpetual babyism.

1825 R. Mudie Babylon Great II. ix. 224 If the wisdom and sentiment of the ‘London’..are exactly correspondent to those of the age which produces them, that age must contain no intermediate state between babyism and dotage.

1836 J. Downes Mt. Decameron II. 232 Alas for the babyism of man, this thing of yesterday.

1872 H. Templer Labour of Love under Red Cross xxvii. 215 I suppose he had only heard of children cutting teeth, and knew he had long past that stage of babyism.

1906 K. A. E. Warburton Old Soho Days 67 The little ones, those who are past the period of abject babyism come to the nursery rejoicing.

1993 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 14 Nov. 3 I had reverted to total babyism. I couldn't walk. I couldn't talk.

1806 W. Taylor in Crit. Rev. 3rd Ser. 6 282 The bluntness of his diary is more tolerable than the babyism of Mr. R.'s. remarks.

1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 599 Wordsworth..descends to such babyisms.

1837 Blackwood's Mag. 41 280 The solemn littlenesses of Lord John Russell and the babyisms of Lord Morpeth.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 79 Babyisms, and dear diminutives.

1934 Amer. Speech 9 71/1 Whelp for either whelk or welt is a babyism.

1961 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 14 May 8/1 At times the kid's babyism so irked his teammates that they hardly spoke to him.

1988 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 12 Feb. This bit of Broadway babyism is a preamble to two other award-winning set pieces.