"childrens" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: children + -s, adding the obsolete genitive or the plural marker to an already plural form. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|children|s}} children + -s Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} childrens
  1. (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) plural of child Tags: form-of, nonstandard, plural Form of: child
    Sense id: en-childrens-en-noun-EGBvLPEj Categories (other): English miscellaneous irregular plurals
  2. (obsolete) genitive of children Tags: form-of, genitive, obsolete Form of: children
    Sense id: en-childrens-en-noun--xqoNU6D Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -s Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -s: 8 92

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          "text": "2004, Curlee Brazell, I believe\nThese 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."
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          "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": "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.",
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          "ref": "1681, Isaac Barrow, A Brief Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer and the Decalogue, London: Brabazon Aylmer, page 164",
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          "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.",
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          "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": "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.",
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