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  • n  the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
  • n  a property characteristic of a child

  • And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living.
  • And yet, eight years later, our politics is marked by puerility and our international reputation is only slowly being brought back from rock- bottom.
  • There is a tendency to ricochet between piety and puerility, an odd juxtaposition that raises a discomforting theological question: What is it about the President's religious .

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