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Definition of Truanting
1. truant [v] - See also: truant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truanting
Literary usage of Truanting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1877)
"A child is found truanting from school, the father is summoned, but he wishes
his child to go to school, he desires it to do so, corrects it for not obeying ..."
2. Report and Transactions (1878)
"... truanting). I heard an ' errand boy' of about 12 years old, say to another of
about the same age, at Torquay to-day, 'Ah, ..."
3. School Management and Methods of Instruction: With Special Reference to by George Collar, Charles W. Crook (1901)
"The insistence upon the production of this note for every absence is one of the
best preventatives of truanting. Note?*06 •""n some schools notes are sent ..."
4. Sessional Papers (1902)
"truanting accounts for the greater portion of the punishments. ... outside the
school truanting does not give so much trouble as in many of these schools. ..."
5. The Real Deal: What Young People Really Think about Government, Politics and by Tom Bentley, Kate Oakley (1999)
"(Edinburgh) truanting and school exclusions truanting and exclusion from school,
both temporary and permanent, have been rising for several years. ..."
6. School Management and Methods of Instruction, with Special Reference to by George Collar, Charles W. Crook (1905)
"... this note for every absence is one of the best preventatives of truanting.
... and even in actual cases of truanting great hesitation should be shown in ..."
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