truantry

[ troo-uhn-tree ]
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noun,plural tru·ant·ries.

Origin of truantry

1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at truant, -ry

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How to use truantry in a sentence

  • The child has this truantry when he plays at Indian, for he fashions the universe to his desires.

    Journeys to Bagdad | Charles S. Brooks
  • Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry.

    Journeys to Bagdad | Charles S. Brooks
  • That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected me.

  • He was a little man, pale and stooped, but with a genius for truantry—a pilgrim of the Bagdad road.

    Journeys to Bagdad | Charles S. Brooks
  • There is something rather stirring in such prodigious marshaling, but I hear you ask what this has to do with truantry.

    Journeys to Bagdad | Charles S. Brooks