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View synonyms for infantine

infantine

[ in-fuhn-tahyn, -tin ]

adjective



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Word History and Origins

Origin of infantine1

1595–1605; infant + -ine 1, modeled on Middle French enfantin

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Example Sentences

"I don't remember," said the culprit, knitting his brows in infantine thought.

His temper was unalterably sweet, and every thought of his breast was laid open to the world with an almost infantine artlessness.

The bedroom in which Caleb had died was, indeed, long held sacred by infantine superstition.

It took him past the cottage in which the new Avice was born, from whose precincts he had heard her first infantine cry.

And, with an infantine confidence she took his hand, as a child does that of a grown-up person;—so they walked on together.

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