childrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: children + -s, adding the obsolete genitive or the plural marker to an already plural form.
Senses: examples: 1980, Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song
According to Essie, “If a man didn’t pay no money for his wife and they just lived together then his childrens got a bad name. It made a man ashamed when his childrens got a bad name.”
2004, Curlee Brazell, I believe
These was a consertration of young mothers who became mothers as tean agers, who the majority had mothers and fathers, who was substance abusers, these was their childrens, who had childrens at an early age, they too was substance abusers, until they was exploiting most all of their resources, on substances which could not do them or their childrens any good.
qualifier: intentionally incorrect
glosses: plural of child
examples: text: In this ſaing S. Auguſtin likeneth the ſacramentes of the olde lavve in reſpect of the ſacramentes of the nevve lavve vnto childrens games, and our ſacramentes he likeneth to the thinges of more profett, vvhich are to be geuen to the ſonnes of God, vvhen they vvaxe of more age, knovvledge, and ripeneſſe.
ref: 1566, Thomas Heskyns, “Proving All Our Sacramentes Generallie to be More Excellent then the Sacramentes of Moyses”, in The Parliament of Chryste Auouching and Declaring the Enacted and Receaued Trueth of the Presence of His Bodie and Bloode in the Blessed Sacrament, […], Antwerp: […] William Silvius […], →OCLC, folio cclxxii, verso:
text: And Moſes ſware on that day, ſaying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, ſhall be thine inheritance, and thy childꝛens foꝛ euer, becauſe thou haſt wholly followed the Lord my God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 14:9, column 1:
text: My own wife loathes my breath, though I did make / My ſolemne ſuit, for our dead childrens ſake: […]
ref: 1630, Fra[ncis] Quarles, Divine Poems: […], London: […] Iohn Marriott, […], page 225:
text: […] it is abundant satisfaction to them if they see their children do well; their chief delight and contentment is in their childrens good absolutely and abstractedly, without indirect regards to their own advantage.
ref: 1681, Isaac Barrow, A Brief Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer and the Decalogue, London: Brabazon Aylmer, page 164:
text: And that his Firſt Book of Practice, together with this Treatiſe of Childrens Diſeaſes, may be plain to an ordinary capacity, I have explained ſome of his Terms, and ſet down his Principles, which being well weighed, will lead you to a true and right underſtanding of any of his writings.
ref: 1682, R. G., Dr. Franciscus de le Boe Sylvius Of Childrens Diseases: Given in a Familiar Style for Weaker Capacities. With an Apparatus or Introduction Explaining the Authors Principles: As Also a Treatise of the Rickets., London: […] George Downs […] :
text: Dr Chamberlen has often aſſured me that nothing is more common than to hang ſeveral ſorts of Amulets about Women in Labour to help their Delivery, & give them an eaſy time: & of all the things that ever he knew of in the World, he declared to me that nothing in his Opinion can come near the hereafter mentioned Necklace for this end, as well as for Childrens Teeth, & Diſtempers of the Head.
ref: 1717, A Philosophical Essay Upon the Celebrated Anodyne Necklace, Recommended to the World by Dr. Chamberlen, for Childrens Teeth: Women in Labour: And Distempers of the Head, London: Printed by H. Parker, at the Bible in Goswell-street, near Aldersgate-Bars, page 18:
text: Each ſpringuing plant doz, in herſelf contain
Ov childrens children an immortal train ;
And, phenix‐like, in my proliffic woomb,
Leves a new pledge, arizing from her toomb.
ref: 1791, Forty Years’ Correſpondence Between Geniusses ov Boath Sexes, volume VI, page 75:
glosses: genitive of children