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Definition of Naïvest
1. naive [adj] - See also: naive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Naïvest
Literary usage of Naïvest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Virgin Birth by Richard H. Grützmacher (1907)
"Yes, there is hardly a department that, equally with ours, can shake the naivest
blind faith in the certainty of scientific results, on the supposition, ..."
2. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Eliot Norton (1883)
"The man withal is a Catholic, eats fish on Friday; — a great lion here when he
visits us; one of the naivest men in the world : concerning whom nevertheless ..."
3. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"1 The poetic temperament of the Teuton, as compared with the Latin, is displayed
in its naivest, simplest form in the first of the two " cosmopolitan ..."
4. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"(2) But these difficulties are old, and ought to be familiar to all but the
naivest realism, of which Mr. Bradley's language here grows strangely redolent.1 ..."
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