truantry
Americannoun
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truantries
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of truantry
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at truant, -ry
Example Sentences
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Such journey would be the soul of truantry and you should set out upon the road every spring when the wind comes warm.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected me.
From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson
Madame, to obviate the known truantry of the King, introduced her sister, Madame de Vintinsille, as clever, but as ordinary as herself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
Then the truth came out, and, had I been only for a mild walk on the links, retribution would have overtaken my truantry.
From Prester John by John Buchan
We will have no more of this truantry.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
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