childwoman

And he had not talked with her long before he discovered that he was facing not a child, not a childwoman, but a woman grown, one who could understand and appreciate the things men and women of experience say and do.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

More and more Warren felt toward her as to a darling, irresistible child, and sometimes as to a young goddess far beyond him, as he realized how pure and sweet the inner life of this childwoman.

Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902