Puerile vs Humane - What's the difference?
puerile | humane |
Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer : puellile.
Childish; trifling; silly.
* (rfdate) De Quincey:
* 1927 , , page 79:
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Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
*, II.3.7:
As adjectives the difference between puerile and humane
is that puerile is while humane is having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.puerile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
- From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.
Synonyms
* (childish): juvenile, silly, trifling,Derived terms
* puerilism * puerilitySee also
* boyish * yobbish * youthful ----humane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
- As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.
- many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.