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Webster 1913 Edition
Infantine
In′fan-tine
(?; 277)
, Adj.
[Cf. F.
enfantin
.] Infantile; childish.
A degree of credulity next
infantine
. Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Infantine
IN'FANTINE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
infantine
infantine
English
Adjective
infantine (comparative more infantine, superlative most infantine)
- Infantile; childish.
- 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Colloquy of Monos and Una’:
- Man, because he could not but acknowledge the majesty of Nature, fell into childish exultation at his acquired and still-increasing dominion over her elements. Even while he stalked a God in his own fancy, an infantine imbecility came over him.
- 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Colloquy of Monos and Una’: