petulancy
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of petulancy
From the Latin word petulantia, dating back to 1550–60. See petulance, -ancy
Example Sentences
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At the head of our adherents in the National Assembly was General Lamorici�re, and I greatly dreaded his petulancy, his imprudent observations, and especially his idleness.
From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de
With all her great sweetness of temper, she occasionally had moments of angry impatience and petulancy that seemed to transform her into another creature.
From The Child of Pleasure by Harding, Georgina
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
He errs from petulancy, but not from stupidity.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Violent zeal for truth hath an hundred to one odds to be 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
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