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Definitions
a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
Word origin
The noun is derived from change + -ling (suffix with the sense ‘immature; small’). Sense 6 (“idiot, simpleton”) is from the idea that foolish children had been left by magical creatures (sense 1).
Used in a sentence
“[S]he, as her attendant, hath / A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king: / She neuer had ſo ſweete a changeling.”
“Juſt as a Changeling ſeems below the reſt / Of Men, or rather is a two-legg’d Beaſt, / So theſe Gigantick Souls amaz'd we find / As much above the reſt of human kind.”
“Nothing will induce parents to show any attention to a child that they suspect of being a changeling.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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