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1708 W. Burnaby tr. Petronius Arbiter (new ed.) Pref. sig. A7 The Simplicity and Naivety is not to be imitated.

1742 D. Hume Simplicity in Writing in Ess. (1748) 260 The absurd Naivety of Sancho Pancho is represented in such inimitable Colours by Cervantes.

1798 Monthly Mag. 6 345 Three volumes..display occasionally, a grace and a naivety seldom surpassed.

1861 De Bow's Rev. Oct.–Nov. 405 A Frenchwoman..is capable of rendering herself most agreeable by her..naivety of deportment.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee ii. 39 They were a childlike and innocent lot; telling lies of the stateliest pattern with a most gentle and winning naivety.

1898 Expositor Dec. 424 The..simplicity or naivety of the language of that Gospel.

1967 A. Djoleto Strange Man v. 74 More amused than ever and emboldened by the apparent naïvety of the man.

1997 Guardian 18 June ii. 4/1 To her fervent supporters..this single mother's political naivety is a plus.

1841 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 232 Shrewd simplicities, naiveties, blundering ingenuities.

1926 Amer. Hist. Rev. 31 306 Entitled ‘France in the Early Middle Ages’ though the period chiefly in view is the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, it is literally strewn with naïveties.

1965 Mind 74 105 A subtlety of interpretation which gives us a Plato whose naiveties are really enigmatic insights.

1993 Man 28 818/2 One does not find in this volume the naiveties which used to mark tourism analysis.