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  • noun Plural form of puerility.

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Examples

  • The author's profound thoughts were his own, the puerilities were the result of the friction of his mind with inferior ones: at least this is my theory, and, as it is a charitable one, I like to indulge it.

    The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

  • Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to Saint

    Les Miserables 2008

  • It became a farrago of puerilities without coherence or sense.

    He blogs! David 2006

  • They are not afraid to encourage the mentally unbalanced to broadcast their mindless puerilities to a nation desperately hungry to take in all things Fair and Balanced.

    Think Progress » Fox News Host On NSA Story: Wall Street Won’t Let A ‘Puny Little Traitor…Take Down Our Market’ 2006

  • On a Web site that archives past games from top players, the comments under Hahn's entry and photograph are a catalog of puerilities Anna Hahn can mate me any day.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

  • It became a farrago of puerilities without coherence or sense.

    Archive 2006-07-01 David 2006

  • On a Web site that archives past games from top players, the comments under Hahn's entry and photograph are a catalog of puerilities Anna Hahn can mate me any day.

    The Kings of New York Jan 2008

  • All these puerilities can do no harm to the Feast of the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Corneille found the stage and every other department of literature infested with these puerilities, into which he rarely fell.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • But the race of scholars is commonly badly brought up, and unless they are bridled in by the rules of their elders they indulge in infinite puerilities.

    The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

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