infancy

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Writer-director Lotfy Nathan’s inspiration is an apocryphal 2nd century text called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which purports to describe the incident-filled childhood of a temperamental Jesus.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

The first known appearance of “failure to thrive” was in the 1933 edition of a medical textbook, “The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood.”

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

Baby Acer, who was born during a Covid lockdown, died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy in Surrey in 2021.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023

She said the earliest text to mention Mary’s age is “The Infancy Gospel of James,” which she describes as “a clearly legendary text that is trying to expand on the gospel accounts.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2017

He lived in his Infancy at Gratz, together with the Princes his three elder Brothers.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von