puerility
noun
the state or quality of being a child.
puerilities
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pluralof puerility.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy.
From Time Magazine Archive
But never, in all this history of feuds and charley-horses, have these two famous universities been driven apart by such puerilities as those which caused the decision of the Princeton Board.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reid's work, he concedes, has "puerilities and longueurs."
From Time Magazine Archive
Others question this, declaring that it is only because he is capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Corneille found the stage and every other department of literature infested with these puerilities, into which he rarely fell.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
