Definitions
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- n. The state or quality of being childlike.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being childlike; simplicity; artlessness.
Etymologies
Examples
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There is a childhood into which we have to grow, just as there is a childhood which we must leave behind; a childlikeness which is the highest gain of humanity, and a childishness from which but few of those who are counted the wisest among men, have freed themselves in their imagined progress towards the reality of things.
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But one cannot read Public Enemies, this lively, bracing, vibrant correspondence, without remarking the ferocious joy, the playfulness, the nose-thumbing, the childlikeness that characterize it.
Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies
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One cannot read Public Enemies, this lively, bracing, vibrant correspondence, without remarking the ferocious joy, the playfulness, the nose-thumbing, the childlikeness that characterize it.
Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies
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Yet, in her mouth, English was a new and beautiful language, softly limpid, with an audacity of phrase and tellingness of expression that conveyed subtleties and nuances as unambiguous and direct as they were unexpected from one of such childlikeness and simplicity.
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A few people around me laughed and one woman leaned over to me and said, "Don't lose your childlikeness."
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Great Regulars: But preserving the childlikeness, the great problem
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And that brings us back to that command about childlikeness.
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This reminds us of another aspect of childlikeness, the aspect of trust, which is often difficult in the face of life's troubles and in the face of a holy God who can be quite frightening himself.
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Yet childlikeness can evanesce like so much dry ice.
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My impression of Gothic Madam is that of a grown-up Gothic Lolita; feminine and frilly with a hint of vintage, but minus the parts that make Lolita–the short skirt and petticoat, the cute collar and sleeves, and the childlikeness in general.
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