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Definition of Childishnesses
1. childishness [n] - See also: childishness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Childishnesses
Literary usage of Childishnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Education: With Its Practical Application to a System and by James Simpson (1836)
"Tyrannies, caprices, and childishnesses—" Free" states of antiquity, Greece and
Rome.—No recognised principle of liberty.—Ingratitude to public benefactors. ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"... shared in what may be called, without a sneer, the childishnesses of his time,
childishnesses often combined with mature powers and profound thought No ..."
3. The Later Nineteenth Century by George Saintsbury (1907)
"... and the childishnesses of most of the others. And it is not the most damning
peculiarity of die verdammte Eace that, when it does not neglect or ignore ..."
4. Periods of European Literature by George Saintsbury (1907)
"... it is certainly present in the Wild Duck; it flashes and glimmers amid the
crudities and the perversities and the childishnesses of most of the others. ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"And her poetry, sometimes for a short interval well balanced and artistic, flies
off into extravagances, and childishnesses, and not seldom degenerates into ..."
6. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"... of Dora, who after marriage continues to be a little girl, whose pouting,
prettinesses, childishnesses, laughter, make the house gay, like the chirping ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... in the difficult pathways of the world, amid their falls, their weakness, and
their childishnesses they will remain none the less children of God. ..."
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