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- adverb In an
infantile manner;childishly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He recollected that he had often wondered at the child's unconscious adaptation of mood to the clothes she happened to be wearing; he recalled how he had seen her demure and distant in misty, pastel-tinted party frocks or quaintly, infantilely dignified in soberer Sunday morning garb.
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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They grew up, looking infantilely upon men, and reading about them in fairy tales.
Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920
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Paul is infantilely enraged at the threatened removal of the nurturing breast, and jealous of a more powerful male figure who must be battled for the woman’s love.
Gerry Canavan 2007
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Paul is infantilely enraged at the threatened removal of the nurturing breast, and jealous of a more powerful male figure who must be battled for the woman’s love.
Gerry Canavan 2007
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