petulance
Noun
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Noun
petulance
- (obsolete) Rudeness, insolence. [16th–19th c.]
- 1704, Edward Hyde, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England:
- [W]ise men knew, that that, which looked like pride in some, and like petulance in others, would, by experience in affairs, and conversation amongst men, both of which most of them wanted, be in time wrought off […].
- 1704, Edward Hyde, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England:
- (obsolete) An insolent remark or act. [17th–19th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 69:
- I believe I was guilty of a petulance, which nothing but my uneasy situation can excuse; if that can.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 69:
- Childish impatience or sulkiness; testiness. [from 18th c.]
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 29 ISBN 1857150570
- She had not done this, but had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance, and yet unable to discontinue it.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 29 ISBN 1857150570
- i childish impatience or sulkiness moodiness, caprice, capriciousness, tetchiness, arbitrariness, viciousness
- German: Gereiztheit, Launenhaftigkeit, Launigkeit
- Italian: petulanza
- Portuguese: petulância
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