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Definition of Petulancies
1. petulancy [n] - See also: petulancy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petulancies
Literary usage of Petulancies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parsifal: ein Bühnenweihfestspiel by Richard Wagner (1920)
"... with insinuating blandishments and dainty flatteries, with pretty petulancies
and delectable ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... for these obliquities of thinking (upon which my own conclusions are as distant
as the poles asunder)—not for his political asperities and petulancies, ..."
3. The Observer by Richard Cumberland (1822)
"... I bid farewell at once to all the vanities, the petulancies, the coquetries
of what is falsely called a life of pleasure, the whole system must undergo ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1826)
"... the admiration of many eminent individuals may have sufficiently consoled him
for vulgar neglect, and even for the petulancies of our small wits. ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... yet polite and delicate withal, — though at times too he could crackle with
his dexterous petulancies, making the air all like needles round you; ..."
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