We can say that the prophecies of the Old Testament, which adapted to the New, would be very absurd and childish things. In his _Account of the Early Printed Books on Lambeth_ 1843, Maitland already took the opportunity to animate what he called the childish competition of rarities that had begun at that time. This would never have happened if you had checked your lexicon, which would have told you that you were both partly right, partly wrong and completely childish. Usually, Puerile characterizes something as immature idiot or stupid – score for argument number one. Childish things in this sense are often complacent and boring; At best, you roll your eyes at how stupid they are, and at worst, their immaturity and nonsense rub your patience like hard cheese. Often used to describe things like movies, jokes, and behaviors, the word implies that something simply isn`t worth the attention of an adult mind. You could describe a childish poem that is flowery and melodramatic when it has no real message, or an adult but childish man who pouts and moans when he is unhappy. When used negatively, the child often helps contrast the actual nature of something with their expected level of maturity, suggesting that they lack necessary awareness, reasoning skills, or sobriety. Example: We could hear the childish laughter of our young niece from the next room. Childish may recall the qualities of youth and immaturity, but the term itself is not a spring chicken. On the contrary, it has existed for more than three centuries, and its predecessors in French and Latin, the adjectives puã©ril and puerilis respectively, are much older. Both of these terms have the same basic meaning as the English word puerile, and both go back to the Latin name puer, which means “boy” or “child.” Nowadays, the child can describe the actions or statements of a real child, but he refers more often (usually with pronounced disapproval) to instances of childishness where adult maturity would be expected or preferred.
Childishness: This noun, which means “lack of maturity or seriousness” or “relationship with youth”, may be the youngest English precursor of the child. Its plural is childhood. But for these two children`s sports fans, the evening was almost as much about game by game as it was about how things went. Example: Millie eventually lost patience when Uncle Al Puerilely asked her to pull her finger. Your example of emails slandered as childish is just a typical example. The incident, childish in appearance but grave in depth, created deep resentment against the party of the nobles. Example: Getting sick from work to watch a stupid movie may seem childish, but hey: you know you want it. Let`s say you`re arguing with a friend about the exact definition of the word childish (because, you know, that`s the kind of thing people argue about, right?). They claim that the child should only be used for people who behave in a childish and stupid way. While your girlfriend agrees with the childish part, she thinks “stupid” goes a little too far. In his opinion, the child is used for things that are only related to young age, and that there is nothing stupid about it. “Only a poop head would assume that children are stupid!” she shouts to you.
Frustrated and with the feeling that she does not understand what you mean, you try to tell her that she herself is childish. but it comes out like, “Well, you`re a stupid ass!” The conflict continues to turn into a volley of childish insults, and nothing is resolved. You can think of childish things as “small” because they have “little” intelligence or maturity or are “small” like a child, right? Okay, this seems like a stretch today, but it`s the source of some of the early ancestors of the word. It all started with the Proto-Indo-European root pau-, which meant “small” or “small in quantity or size”. This root could also be interpreted as “small age” or “young”. This meaning would inspire the Latin noun puer, which means “child” or more precisely “boy” (yes, this was influenced by patriarchy). Puer would serve as the basis for the Latin term puerilis, which means “young” or “related to childhood or childhood”. This man, in this childish state, has already taken possession of all the treasure of divine truth! But for the convenience of those of us who have remained young, the definition of argument number two is also valid. Sometimes calling something childish only means that it is characteristic of children or otherwise related to being young. This use is completely neutral and does not imply anything about the temperaments, nature, or level of intelligence of the things it describes. Thus, a children`s TV show may not be immature or foolish, but is only for small children.
You sigh a hundred times at the sight of the sad follies that have produced childish questions among us. Example: Although I try to behave with dignity and maturity, I couldn`t help but laugh at all the fart jokes in the children`s movie. Example: The bank robbers` childish plan was based on their assumption that cashiers would confuse their water guns with the real things. You may have guessed it by reading the Synonyms section, but childish, immature, and young all have extremely similar meanings to childish. What makes them so good is that all four things can be described as stupid or worthless to an adult temperament, or as related to adolescence or early stages of development. The infant can also characterize something as a lack of seriousness or good development, but it often refers specifically to babies. Puerilis gave birth to several names meaning “immaturity” or “childishness”, including the Latin puerilitatem, the French puérilité and, in the late 1400s, the English childishness. Many English nouns ending in -ility are simply derivatives of pre-existing adjectives, but childish is actually considered an adaptation of the old childishness. Puerile has been used in English since the 1650s or 60s, although it did not take on its negative connotation that prevails today until the 1680s. The results were strange, convincing, childish, trashy and slightly brilliant – laser-controlled on young Israeli men. Childishly: This form of childish adverb describes an action, adjective or other adverb as characteristic or showing youth, immaturity or lack of seriousness. Example: When the candidate said, “He did it first!”, he invited ridicule for using a childish excuse.
According to Wollstonecraft, unfortunately, women in their society learn to be intentionally immature, to spread the testimony of madness and weakness – a kind of childlike decency as she puts it – in order to arouse the sympathy of men. Women are informed from childhood and taught by the example of their mothers that a little knowledge of human weakness, rightly called cunning, gentleness of temperament, external obedience and conscientious attention to a kind of childlike decency, will win for them the protection of man; And if they are beautiful, everything else is useless, at least for twenty years of their lives. Example: The two third-graders were childishly innocent of their parents` aversion to each other. Under Nurse-Tales, I include the extremely childish stories of the nursery, which are often (as in German stories) intertwined with rhymes. This eight-minute piece of childish propaganda features Ed Asner`s warm and winning voice. So I focused on another British movie star who relied on her youthful appeal rather than her childlike appeal. I see Goodling`s use of the word as an attempt to deny responsibility for his actions by seeing himself in childish terms. Example: Jane kept a pair of her daughter`s childhood pajamas to remind us of years past.
The book collector A general overview of aspiration and those who have committed to it at home and abroad from the first period to the present day Maturity, adult, advanced, intelligent, complex, significant, significant, substantial, thought-provoking, the eternal puberty of criminal repression applied to the things of the soul! A long pinafore and a child`s cap are used to realize the theory of his puberty. Tiré de A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Associated with or a result of childhood or youngness de Mary Wollstonecraft.