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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.
Pertaining to infants or to young children.

Definition 2024


infantine

infantine

English

Adjective

infantine (comparative more infantine, superlative most infantine)

  1. 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.