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PETULANCY
Noun
petulancy (countable and uncountable, plural petulancies)
petulance; petulant attitude or behaviour
Source: Wiktionary
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
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