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lacking experience or sophistication, and the understanding that comes from them — often too trusting or optimistic
- Of her daughters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little: naive, and child-like in face and manner, and piquant in form; her white muslin dress and blue sash became her well.Chapter 17 (49% in)
- "Do you think you shall like Morton?" she asked of me, with a direct and naive simplicity of tone and manner, pleasing, if child-like.Chapter 31 (75% in)
There are no more uses of "naive" in Jane Eyre.
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