| 单词 | second childishness |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecond childishness second childishness n. behaviour typical of a person undergoing a ‘second childhood’ (see second childhood n. 2), esp. in later life. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > second childhood second childhood1549 second childishnessa1616 second infancya1627 second childship1691 infancy1697 twichild1889 a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 165 Last Scene of all..Is second childishnesse, and meere obliuion. View more context for this quotation 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xix. 161 There was not a stage in the life of man,..down to the lean and slipper'd pantaloon in his second childishness, but he had some favourite notion. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 74 The old man doth not become a child by means of his second childishness. 1878 Mrs. H. Wood Pomeroy Abbey III. 255 The revelation made..by Naomi Rex in her second childishness. 1989 Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. The decline to second childishness..is traced from granny-sitters to alarming trips to hospital to a residential home to a mental hospital. < as lemmas |
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