Meaning of Puerility | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
   countable, uncountable
2. That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is insipid or silly.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“This classification should have⟳ led to the discovery and study⟳ of remedies which act specifically upon the various textures and tissues of the body, such as the cellular, serous, mucous, parenchymatous, fibrous, gelatinous, &c., but it did not, except in the most imperfect manner—so imperfect, in fact, that most pathologists, despairing of finding such remedies, at one time sank into all the peurilities^([sic – meaning puerilities]) of the "expectant mode" of the French, or the nihilisms of the German.”

“You treat⟳ his opinions (though he never thrusts them on you) about "the Church," and his duty, and the souls of his parishioners, with civil indifference, as much ado about nothing; and his rubrical eccentricities as puerilities.”

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