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Childlike vs Immaculate - What's the difference?

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Childlike is a related term of immaculate.


As adjectives the difference between childlike and immaculate

is that childlike is innocent and trustful; credulous; artless while immaculate is having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.

childlike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • innocent and trustful; credulous; artless
  • of, like, or suitable for a child

    • Quotations

    * 1859 : , Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism *: And on the other hand, fatherly and childlike feelings in the national spirit, are the sources of all pure national blessings. * 1894 : , Lessings Nathan Der Weise *: He certainly has childlike simplicity, and all the qualities which go to make up a true Christian character.

    Synonyms

    * childish * childly * See also

    Derived terms

    * childlikeness

    Related terms

    * child * childishly * childishness

    References

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    immaculate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
    • Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate . —
    Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II , V-iii.

    Synonyms

    * spotless * undefiled * unsullied

    Derived terms

    * Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculateness