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Definition of Petulance
1. Noun. An irritable petulant feeling.
Generic synonyms: Distemper, Ill Humor, Ill Humour
Specialized synonyms: Testiness, Tetchiness, Touchiness, Pet
Derivative terms: Fretful, Fussy, Irritable, Peevish, Petulant
Definition of Petulance
1. n. The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
Definition of Petulance
1. Noun. The property of being petulant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petulance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petulance
Literary usage of Petulance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the by William Robertson (1769)
"... their vices with all the violence of invective, and all the petulance of
ridicule, men's ears being ..."
2. Plain home talk by Edward Bliss Foote (1892)
"but the petulance canses the bilious condition, instead of the latter causing
... Violent temper is worse than petulance. It ¡a absolutely dangerous to life ..."
3. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"From this period, the Greeks began to lose: their spirit of hardy and laborious
virtue; and to adopt the refined indolence, the captious petulance, ..."
4. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... petulance, and barbarity the same as Caesar painted the Gauls— prompt to
resolve, ardent to combat, impetuous in attack, and easily discouraged. ..."
5. The American Law Journal by John Elihu Hall (1817)
"all the excesses of which petulance and brutality were capable. Such cruel usages
yet prevailed in the German Thirty years' war. ..."
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