petulancy
Americannoun
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petulancies
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of petulancy
From the Latin word petulantia, dating back to 1550–60. See petulance, -ancy
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It would be sempiternal for us here to make a relation of all the petulancy and wickedness of Students, whereof these and other Parents, each in their particular, are miserably sensible of.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.
The President up to this time, although fighting against great odds, showed no impatience or petulancy, but the message brought by Mr. Glass was the last straw.
From Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Tumulty, Joseph P.
He suspected any zeal which protested too much for truth, and considered it "odds on" it being "either petulancy, ambition, or pride."
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan
He was the first martyr to Aurelian's petulancy, being beheaded on the 22d of December, in the same year.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
Her touch was magnetic, and petulancy vanished at her smile as at a charm.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
The lower animals seem to have certain of our foibles, and antagonisms, and unreasoning petulancies.
From The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers by Burroughs, John
Rosabelle! the petulancies of misfortune claim our pity, not resentment.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
This evil then had not happened! a cursed cross accident for us, too!—Heigh-ho! nothing else, I think, in this mortal life! people need not study to bring crosses upon themselves by their petulancies.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel
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