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English
Etymology
From lad + -kin.
Noun
ladkin (plural ladkins)
- (archaic) A little lad.
1640 (date written), H M, “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ , or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, ”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, . ΨΥΧΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ . ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ . ΑΝΤΙΜΟΝΟΨΥΧΙΑ . Hereto is Added a Paraphrasticall Interpretation of the Answer of Apollo Consulted by Amelius, about Plotinus Soul Departed this Life. By H. M. Master of Arts, and Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge.">…], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 3, stanza 31, page 44:Tharrhon that young ladkin hight, / He prayed this aged Sire for to reveal / What way this Dragons poyſonous deſpight, / And ſtrong Pantheothens inwalling might, / We may eſcape.
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