Citations:naïver

Adjective: comparative of naïve

 * 1877, unknown, The North American Review, Volume CXXIV., page #495:
 * The sudden falling in love which characterizes his heroes and heroines was never more clearly marked than here, and no talk was ever naïver than that which fills all of these stories, but this one of the youth from America is by all odds the best.
 * 1901, Hermann Gunkel and W. H. Carruth, The Legends of Genesis, Chapter III., page #72:
 * furthermore, the way in which they speak of God and his participation in the affairs of the world was naïver than is possible for us of modern times ;
 * 1902, Joseph Estlin Carpenter and George Harford, The Composition of the Hexateuch, Chapter XII., pages 220–221:
 * And in this aspect the work which takes for granted the worship of Yahweh from the beginning, implies a naïver conception of human things than the document which divides the history of Israel’s religion into successive stages, and traces a progress culminating in the revelation of Yahweh at Horeb  a.
 * 1903, unknown, The Pall Mall Magazine, Volume XXXI., page #344:
 * In matters of the heart and of the senses, no one was naïver than he was.