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单词 childish-young
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childish-young
Chiefly appositive, parasynthetic, and similative, as childish-minded, childish-young. N.E.D. (1889) included childish-mindedness, based on an unreliable reading in the following quotation:
1624 F. Bacon Lett. (1763) 354 I love birds, as the king doth; and have some childish mindedness [1874 ed. Spedding A word which I cannot make out. Birch read it ‘mindedness’, which it cannot have been meant for] wherein we shall consent.
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c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 21 As in yowre part now be not childisshe gast.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I2v You wil be thought More childish valourous than manly wise.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 142 I am too childish, foolish for this world. View more context for this quotation
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 83. ⁋2 Neither childish-young, nor beldam-old.
1856 T. A. Trollope Girlhood of Catherine de' Medici xi. 175 Savonarola..had preached that ‘lilies should flourish by the side of lilies;’—a puerility, which had exercised more influence on the childish-minded citizens than the profoundest wisdom would have obtained.
1896 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties 26 Dec. (1932) II. 291 Why not have Lady Anne presented as a weak, childish-witted, mesmerized creature?
1919 School Rev. 27 10 Unassorted nature-study intensifies the childish mindedness so characterized by the disorganization of its knowledge.
2003 Times (Nexis) 22 Dec. 11 There is an important difference between these charming automata and the busy bureaucrats of Brussels. The former are there to amuse the childish minded.
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