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Puerility

noun
(pl. puerilities)
1.
The state of a child between infancy and adolescence.  Synonym: childhood.
2.
A property characteristic of a child.  Synonym: childishness.






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"Puerility" Quotes from Famous Books



... obvious thing to do with a horse is to ride it; with a cake, to eat it; with a sixpence to spend it.' A few boyish persons carry this further, and think that the natural thing to do with a book is to read it. The mere reading of a rare book is a puerility, an idiosyncrasy of adolescence; it is the ownership of the book which is the matter of distinction. The collector of coins does not accumulate his treasures for the purpose of ultimately spending them in the ...
— Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs • Henry H. Harper

... such a proof of sagacity in the twelfth year of his age, what might not be expected from his finesse in the maturity of his faculties and experience? Thus secured in the good graces of the whole family, he saw the days of his puerility glide along in the most agreeable elapse of caresses and amusement. He never fairly plunged into the stream of school-education, but, by floating on the surface, imbibed a small tincture of those different sciences which his master pretended to teach. In short, he resembled ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett



Words linked to "Puerility" :   childhood, puerile, immaturity, immatureness, childishness, youngness



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