babeship

noun2

1. •
   (no longer used) Infancy; babyhood.

   • Neither was he ashamed to confesse that he had through errour doen amysse in many thinges, by reason that he had not euen from his tendre babeship ben nousled in the preceptes of philosophie. — 1564
2. •
   (no longer used) A baby.

   • It was toward evening of that warm, August afternoon that the farmer, passing, spied my babeship, as bare as cupid, perched there in the hay. — 1899