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

Etymology

Origin of petulancy

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

Example Sentences

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petulancy petulancies

Light-blue eyes they were, set in a good-looking, boyish face, that had somehow an effect of petulancy.

From Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine

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

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 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 Jonathan Swift

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.—Swift.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch

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

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

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