PETULANCES
Noun
petulances
plural of petulance
Source: Wiktionary
PETULANCE
Pet"u*lance, Pet"u*lan*cy, n. Etym: [L. petulania: cf. F. pétulance.
See Petulant.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition