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- noun Plural form of
puerility .
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Examples
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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
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Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to Saint
Les Miserables 2008
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It became a farrago of puerilities without coherence or sense.
He blogs! David 2006
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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.
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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
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It became a farrago of puerilities without coherence or sense.
Archive 2006-07-01 David 2006
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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
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All these puerilities can do no harm to the Feast of the
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Corneille found the stage and every other department of literature infested with these puerilities, into which he rarely fell.
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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.
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