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Definition of Truants
1. truant [v] - See also: truant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truants
Literary usage of Truants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New Haven (Conn.). Board of Education (1883)
"... 11422 Decrease, 377 Number of truants, 432 Decrease, 12 Number of cases of
truancy, 780 Decrease, 82 Number of scholars transferred to ungraded schools, ..."
2. Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1895)
"THE CAEE OF truants AND ... that teachers have good reasons to wish they had
stayed away—these are the truants and incorrigibles who must be taken care of, ..."
3. The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston by Boston (Mass.), Massachusetts (1864)
"Habitual truants, &c., to be fined. Institution of instruction, house of reformation,
&e., for the commitment of truants, &c. Repeal of former ordinances. ..."
4. The Savoy: An Illustrated Monthly by Arthur Symon (1896)
"... THE truants' HOLIDAY JOME, let us forth, Sibylla ! The brave day, See, 's all
a-quiver with its gold and blue ! Come, let us fly these paltry streets, ..."
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