puerilityn.

Brit.

/pjʊəˈrɪlᵻti/,

/pjɔːˈrɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/pjʊˈrɪlᵻdi/

Forms: late Middle English puerilite, 1500s puerylite, 1500s–1600s puerilitie, 1600s– puerility.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French puérilité; Latin puerīlitāt-, puerīlitās.

Etymology: < Middle French puerilite, Middle French, French puérilité childhood (1396), period of life between the ages of seven and fourteen or fifteen years (1454), instance or display of childishness (1552), childishness, immaturity (1674) and its etymon classical Latin puerīlitāt-, puerīlitās state of being a child, childishness < puerīlis puerile adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Catalan puerilitat (16th cent.), Spanish puerilidad (early 17th cent.), Portuguese puerilidade (late 16th cent.), Italian puerilità (a1511). Compare puerice n. and later puerile adj.

1. As a count noun: an instance, embodiment, or display of childishness, immaturity, or triviality; (in later use also spec. in plural) juvenilia.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun] > instance of

childhoodc1330

childhead1340

puerilityc1475

boytry?1542

childishness1587

babism1610

youthfullity1763

babyism1806

baby act1865

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > childish

puerilityc1475

boys' play1538

c1475 Mankind (1969) 820 (MED) Ewyr to offend and euer to aske mercy, yt ys a puerilite.

1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 363 Relaxing sometimes to very great Puerilities.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 279. ¶5 Those trifling Points and Puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid.

1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 6 Of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt, since a volume of his poems was..printed in his thirteenth year.

1810 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. II. 271 The taste of a succeeding proprietor..has ridded the spot of its puerilities.

1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. xiv. 294 The solemn impressions he was beginning to receive from the scene..abstracting from his heart as a puerility any momentary vexation at words.

1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iv. xxxix. 576 She was..addicted to some contemptible Syrian cult of superstition and puerilities.

1992 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. Weekend Suppl. p. ix/5 I do wish they would leave these rag-mag puerilities behind them, not inflict them on grown-up readers.

2. As a mass noun.

a. The condition of being a child; childhood; spec. (in traditions of thought dividing human life into a number of ages) the period from late childhood to early adolescence. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood

childhoodOE

childheadc1330

bairnheid1393

enfauncec1400

puerice1481

puerility1512

childage1548

childishness1597

leading-string1677

impuberty1785

cap and feather days1822

bairnhooda1835

child-life1841

pupillarity1846

tunic-hood1859

bread-and-butterhood1869

preadolescence1907

latency1910

puerilism1925

1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 34 Seinge the indigent puerylite of them.

1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 149^v Puerilitie, being the second age, continueth from seuen to fourten yeres.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 24 A Reserve of Puerilitie wee have not shaken off from Schoole.

1719 Free-thinker No. 138. 2 The Seasons of Puerility and Adolescency.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 139 There would be hope if we could change palsy into puerility.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. iii. §2. 95 Yet impossible as it is to get any focussed clearness and exactitude here, it is equally impossible to ignore this phase of completed puerility.

1997 M. Worton in J. Morrison & F. Krobb Text into Image, Image into Text 15 In the nineteenth century, men defined themselves as men with reference to the concept of manhood; this initially meant in opposition to childhood (puerility), it later took the form of an equation between manhood and virility.

b. Usually derogatory. Behaviour, conversation, thought, etc., befitting children rather than adults; childishness; immaturity, triviality, silliness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun]

chilcea1200

fauntelte1377

bairnheid?a1513

childishness1539

babishness1557

puerility1576

childnessa1616

puerileness1727

babyhood1748

babyishness1836

immaturity1895

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > childishness

puerility1576

puerileness1727

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 282 Who..playeth pranckes of puerilitie and childishnesse.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iii. §1 In nothing did Epicurus more discover the weakness and puerility of his judgement.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 523. ¶5 Downright Puerility, and unpardonable in a Poet that is past Sixteen.

1792 C. Smith Desmond I. xxi. 203 In the same letter you describe your reflections on the puerility and inconsequence of the objects that mankind are so anxiously occupied in obtaining.

1827 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1887) 45 That a shrewd statesman..should, at nearly sixty years of age, descend to such puerility is utterly inconceivable.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. ii. 416 In the puerility and trivialness of their wonders, they even surpass the Western Hagiologies.

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 49/2 Only one genius arose whose cynical, malice-tipped wit satirized adequately the puerility of the era.

1990 Harper's Mag. Aug. 45/1 The expressions, the gestures, the acts, and the preferences of the recent presidents display the traits not of maturity but of puerility.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	puerility
释义	puerilityn. Brit. /pjʊəˈrɪlᵻti/, /pjɔːˈrɪlᵻti/, U.S. /pjʊˈrɪlᵻdi/ Forms: late Middle English puerilite, 1500s puerylite, 1500s–1600s puerilitie, 1600s– puerility. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French puérilité; Latin puerīlitāt-, puerīlitās. Etymology: < Middle French puerilite, Middle French, French puérilité childhood (1396), period of life between the ages of seven and fourteen or fifteen years (1454), instance or display of childishness (1552), childishness, immaturity (1674) and its etymon classical Latin puerīlitāt-, puerīlitās state of being a child, childishness < puerīlis puerile adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Catalan puerilitat (16th cent.), Spanish puerilidad (early 17th cent.), Portuguese puerilidade (late 16th cent.), Italian puerilità (a1511). Compare puerice n. and later puerile adj. 1. As a count noun: an instance, embodiment, or display of childishness, immaturity, or triviality; (in later use also spec. in plural) juvenilia. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun] > instance of childhoodc1330 childhead1340 puerilityc1475 boytry?1542 childishness1587 babism1610 youthfullity1763 babyism1806 baby act1865 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > childish puerilityc1475 boys' play1538 c1475 Mankind (1969) 820 (MED) Ewyr to offend and euer to aske mercy, yt ys a puerilite. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 363 Relaxing sometimes to very great Puerilities. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 279. ¶5 Those trifling Points and Puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid. 1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 6 Of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt, since a volume of his poems was..printed in his thirteenth year. 1810 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. II. 271 The taste of a succeeding proprietor..has ridded the spot of its puerilities. 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. xiv. 294 The solemn impressions he was beginning to receive from the scene..abstracting from his heart as a puerility any momentary vexation at words. 1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iv. xxxix. 576 She was..addicted to some contemptible Syrian cult of superstition and puerilities. 1992 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. Weekend Suppl. p. ix/5 I do wish they would leave these rag-mag puerilities behind them, not inflict them on grown-up readers. 2. As a mass noun. a. The condition of being a child; childhood; spec. (in traditions of thought dividing human life into a number of ages) the period from late childhood to early adolescence. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood childhoodOE childheadc1330 bairnheid1393 enfauncec1400 puerice1481 puerility1512 childage1548 childishness1597 leading-string1677 impuberty1785 cap and feather days1822 bairnhooda1835 child-life1841 pupillarity1846 tunic-hood1859 bread-and-butterhood1869 preadolescence1907 latency1910 puerilism1925 1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 34 Seinge the indigent puerylite of them. 1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 149^v Puerilitie, being the second age, continueth from seuen to fourten yeres. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 24 A Reserve of Puerilitie wee have not shaken off from Schoole. View more context for this quotation 1719 Free-thinker No. 138. 2 The Seasons of Puerility and Adolescency. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 139 There would be hope if we could change palsy into puerility. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. iii. §2. 95 Yet impossible as it is to get any focussed clearness and exactitude here, it is equally impossible to ignore this phase of completed puerility. 1997 M. Worton in J. Morrison & F. Krobb Text into Image, Image into Text 15 In the nineteenth century, men defined themselves as men with reference to the concept of manhood; this initially meant in opposition to childhood (puerility), it later took the form of an equation between manhood and virility. b. Usually derogatory. Behaviour, conversation, thought, etc., befitting children rather than adults; childishness; immaturity, triviality, silliness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun] chilcea1200 fauntelte1377 bairnheid?a1513 childishness1539 babishness1557 puerility1576 childnessa1616 puerileness1727 babyhood1748 babyishness1836 immaturity1895 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > childishness puerility1576 puerileness1727 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 282 Who..playeth pranckes of puerilitie and childishnesse. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iii. §1 In nothing did Epicurus more discover the weakness and puerility of his judgement. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 523. ¶5 Downright Puerility, and unpardonable in a Poet that is past Sixteen. 1792 C. Smith Desmond I. xxi. 203 In the same letter you describe your reflections on the puerility and inconsequence of the objects that mankind are so anxiously occupied in obtaining. 1827 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1887) 45 That a shrewd statesman..should, at nearly sixty years of age, descend to such puerility is utterly inconceivable. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. ii. 416 In the puerility and trivialness of their wonders, they even surpass the Western Hagiologies. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 49/2 Only one genius arose whose cynical, malice-tipped wit satirized adequately the puerility of the era. 1990 Harper's Mag. Aug. 45/1 The expressions, the gestures, the acts, and the preferences of the recent presidents display the traits not of maturity but of puerility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1475
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