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Definition of Truantly
1. adv. Like a truant; in idleness.
Definition of Truantly
1. Adverb. Like a truant; in idleness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truantly
1. in a manner of one who shirks duty [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truantly
Literary usage of Truantly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina by Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1860)
"... seemed always present, so palpably, that she almost reached out her hand to
smooth that romantic lock of brown hair, that truantly curled on his broad, ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"No wonder, then, if the tongues and pens of many were whetted against him, whose
complaints are beheld, by discreet men, like the exclamations of truantly ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1899)
"... a truantly school-boy; Captain Compliment, a teacher of gestures and fashions;
Jack Implement, his page; Mistress Indulgence Gingle, ..."
4. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"No wonder, then, if the tongues and pens of many were whetted against him, whose
complaints are beheld by discreet men like the exclamations of truantly ..."
5. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... or come to God and say a prayer with our mind standing at distance, trifling
like untaught boys at their books, with a truantly spirit. ..."
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