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puerility (pjuːəˈrɪlɪtɪ) [a. F. puérilité (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. L. puerīlitās, -tātem, f. puerīlis: see prec.] 1. The condition of being a child; childhood; in Civil Law, the age between seven and fourteen.1512 Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 34 Seinge the indigent puerylite of the...
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puerility
puerility/pjuəˈrɪlətɪ; ˌpjuə`rɪlətɪ/ n(fml derog 文, 贬)(a) [U] puerile behaviour; childishness 幼稚; 愚蠢.(b) [C esp pl 尤作复数](fml 文) childish and foolish act, idea, statement, etc 幼稚、 愚蠢的言行、 想法等.
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Frank Harvey (playwright)
sympathetic plays ever written"
Judge Not performed by Alfred Dampier's company at the Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne "... the very essence of dulness and puerility
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Childhood Synonyms and Antonyms - YourDictionary
Synonyms for CHILDHOOD: infancy, youth, juniority, minority, juvenility, immaturity, nonage, pupilage, puerility, adolescence, girlhood, boyhood, school-days ...
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Childhood - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
childhood: 1 n the state of a child between infancy and adolescence Synonyms: puerility Type of: immatureness , immaturity not having reached maturity n the time of person's life when they are a child Types: girlhood , maidenhood , maidhood the childhood of a girl boyhood the childhood of a boy Type of: time of life a period of time during ...
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puerile
puerile, a. (n.) (ˈpjuːəraɪl) [ad. L. puerīl-is boyish, childish, f. puer a boy, child: see -ile. Cf. F. puéril, -ile (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), perh. the immediate source.] A. adj. 1. Of, pertaining or proper to a boy or child; youthful, boyish, juvenile. Now rare exc. as in 2.1661 K. W. Conf. Chara...
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Rachel Cooke in The New Statesman called the comedy on the show “relentlessly laboured” full of “faux-feminist puerility”.
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boyism
boyism (ˈbɔɪɪz(ə)m) [f. boy n.1+ -ism.] 1. The characteristic nature of a boy.a 1790 T. Warton in Sir E. Brydges Milton (1853) 566 Perhaps the real boyism of the brother..is to be taken into the account. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey i. i. (1878) 1 The spirit of boyism began to develop itself. 2. A boyish...
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Aemilia Lepida
he betook himself to iambic verse, and heaped much scornful abuse upon Scipio, adopting the bitter tone of Archilochus, but avoiding his license and puerility
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trivialness
ˈtrivialness Now rare. [f. as prec. + -ness.] = triviality 1.a 1687 H. More App. Def. Philos. Cabbala xi. §1 As for the pretended Trivialness of the Fifth and Sixth Days work. 1732 Stackhouse Hist. Bible (1767) IV. vi. v. 212 The vast distance of the place and trivialness of the errand. 1855 Milman ...
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António Nobre
tone from Almeida Garrett and Júlio Dinis, and also from Jules Laforgue, but he exceeded them all in the peculiar compromise between irony and a refined puerility
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childishness
childishness (ˈtʃaɪldɪʃnɪs) [f. as prec. + -ness.] Childish quality. 1. Quality or conduct natural to a child.1526 Tindale 1 Cor. xiii. 11 I put awaye all childesshnes. 1607 Shakes. Cor. v. iii. 157 Speake thou Boy, Perhaps thy childishnesse will moue him more Then can our Reasons. 1833 Lamb Elia, P...
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Cosh Boy
emphasised and the excitement of conspiracy and chase is given a glamour which is in no way dimmed by the "nice" atmosphere of the youth club scenes and the puerility
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adolescency
adolescency (ædəʊˈlɛsənsɪ) [ad. L. adolēscentia n. of state f. adolēscent-em pr. pple. of adolēsc-ĕre to grow up.] The quality or state of being adolescent, or in the growing age. Properly distinguished from adolescence, as youthfulness is from youth, as in ‘a protracted adolescence,’ but ‘evidences...
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Freitag aus Licht
obsession with control', but his review was favorable overall:
I found that there was something grand and stirring about it all, despite the apparent puerility Stockhausen, like Blake's fool, persists in his puerility and grows wise.
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