"child-like" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more child-like",
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    },
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      "form": "most child-like",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "childlike"
        }
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          "ref": "1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “All Fools’ Day”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 100:",
          "text": "When a child, with child-like apprehensions, that dived not below the surface of the matter, I read those Parables—not guessing at their involved wisdom—I had more yearnings towards that simple architect, that built his house upon the sand, than I entertained for his more cautious neighbour; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pyncheon of To-day”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 136:",
          "text": "There is no frightful guest in the house, but only a poor, gentle, child-like man, whom I believe to be Cousin Hepzibah’s brother.",
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        }
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        "Alternative spelling of childlike"
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  "word": "child-like"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more child-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most child-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “All Fools’ Day”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 100:",
          "text": "When a child, with child-like apprehensions, that dived not below the surface of the matter, I read those Parables—not guessing at their involved wisdom—I had more yearnings towards that simple architect, that built his house upon the sand, than I entertained for his more cautious neighbour; […]",
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          "ref": "1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pyncheon of To-day”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 136:",
          "text": "There is no frightful guest in the house, but only a poor, gentle, child-like man, whom I believe to be Cousin Hepzibah’s brother.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of childlike"
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