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Definition of Petulancy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petulancy
Literary usage of Petulancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... and overruled with contempt and noise, were liable to all the personal reproaches
and discountenance that the pride and petulancy of the other party ..."
2. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times by Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury (1773)
"... the Beauty of Order, and the fimple Imitation of Nature were in a manner wholly
unknown to em; or thro' petulancy, or Debauch of Humour, were, ..."
3. Memoirs of the life of the rev. Lant Carpenter, with selections from his by Russell Lant Carpenter (1842)
"Sometimes too I have heen obliged to decide rapidly; I will, however, endeavour
for the future to err less in this respect. " With regard to ' petulancy' I ..."
4. The Forum, Or, Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar by David Paul Brown (1856)
"This is all perfectly sound and true, and the doctrine should be closely observed
by the COURT, as well as by COUNSEL. petulancy produces ..."
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