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Puerility   Listen
noun
Puerility  n.  (pl. puerilities)  
1.
The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.
2.
That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.





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"Puerility" Quotes from Famous Books



... at times to others. But he was noble, lofty, sincere, without a touch of meanness in his composition, above circumlocution, with a simplicity of character strikingly great, but without anything like puerility or weakness. ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... her tete-a-tete with Giovanelli being interrupted; she could chatter as freshly and freely with two gentlemen as with one; there was always, in her conversation, the same odd mixture of audacity and puerility. Winterbourne remarked to himself that if she was seriously interested in Giovanelli, it was very singular that she should not take more trouble to preserve the sanctity of their interviews; and he liked her the more ...
— Daisy Miller • Henry James
... granted a slice or two more—until the British flag was hoisted in Pretoria. We had, it is true, rather hugged the delusion that it would have been up for Christmas Day. But even in the light of that error of judgment we could appreciate the puerility of conserving supplies as if the dogs of war were to go ...
— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan


Words linked to "Puerility" :   immatureness, puerile, youngness


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