truantry
Americannoun
plural
truantriesEtymology
Origin of truantry
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at truant, -ry
Example Sentences
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I was too snug in the Casa Lanfranchi to be tempted astray, and any truantry of mine from the round of my tasks led me back to Aurelia and love.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
It was only this afternoon that so slight a circumstance as a ray of light flashing in my eye provided me an agreeable and unexpected truantry.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
But all truantry is not in the open air.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
Most of us are 19admitted into truantry by the accidents, merely, of our senses.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
From ethical sophistication and moral truantry Mark Twain evolves an inexhaustible supply of humour.
From Mark Twain by Henderson, Archibald
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