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Puer

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PUER. In its enlarged sense this word signifies a child of either sex; though in its restrained meaning it is applied to a boy only.
     2. A case once arose which turned upon this question, whether a daughter could take lands under the description of puer, and it was decided by two judges against one that she was entitled. Dy. 337 b. In another case, it was ruled the other way. Rob. 33.



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Or take the James Bond films, which end with what is superficially the union of the eternal masculine and eternal feminine, but what is really the bringing together of a puer aeternus with a disposable erotic fantasy (Pussy Galore).
currentibus] quoniam de vero ac graeco hodie tractavimus, ultimam fabulam, quam puer legebam de pueris cum lepore ludentibus, alieno metri et stili genere paedagogice adiunctum AB.
Marie-Louise von Franz, Puer Aeternus (Boston: Sigo Press, 1981).
 
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