petulancy

American  

[pech-uh-luhn-see] / ˈpɛtʃ ə lən si /

noun

Rare.

• petulancies
  plural

1. petulance.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• petulancies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of petulancy

From the Latin word petulantia, dating back to 1550–60. See petulance, -ancy

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Example Sentences

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petulancy petulancies

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 A. Marsh

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 Joseph P. Tumulty

He was accustomed to act with the usual arrogance of a Crown Prince and the petulancy of an invalid.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn

Since you do not allow petulancy of temper, nor any lightness of conduct, I should expect a continual revolution.'

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

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 John Foxe

Rosabelle! the petulancies of misfortune claim our pity, not resentment.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

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 John Burroughs

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 Samuel Richardson

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