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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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
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
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
There are some puerilities and much philosophy, trivialities and some of the profoundest reflections.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
