infantlike
adjEtymology From infant + -like.
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childlike
- I know you can doe very little alone, for your / helpes are many, or elſe your actions would growe won- / derous ſingle : your abilities are to Infant-like, for dooing / much alone.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 8, column 2: