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petulancy |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Petulance \Pet"u*lance\, Petulancy \Pet"u*lan*cy\, n. [L. petulania: cf F. p['e]tulance. See {Petulant}.] The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. ``The petulancy of our words.'' --B. Jonson Like pride in some and like petulance in others --Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. --Cowper. Syn: {Petulance}, {Peevishness}. -- Peevishness implies the permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies temporary or capricious irritation.
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