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Origin of puerility
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English word from Latin word puerīlitās. See puerile, -ity
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The school officials’ contention that C.G.’s post was “hate speech targeting the Jewish community” was as dumb as his joke and confused puerility with animosity.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2022
Could there be a more honest example of his puerility?
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
The duo is signed to Fueled by Ramen, an imprint probably best known for putting out the work of Fall Out Boy, and they share an insistent puerility and melodic flamboyance with their pop-punk labelmates.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2016
Ridicule, mocking, insults that aren’t profane, and simple puerility aren’t going anywhere.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2015
But, amusing as it is, it shows into what depths of puerility the amorous casuistry of these romances had fallen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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
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
He is for ever amusing himself with the puerilities of mythology; his king is Jupiter, who, if the queen brings no children, has a barren Juno.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
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