Definition of Truantry

1. truancy [n -RIES] - See also: truancy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truantry

troy unit
troy weight
troyounce
troyounces
troys
truage
truages
truancies
truancy
truant
truant officer
truanted
truanting
truantly
truantries
truantry (current term)
truants
truantship
trub
trubs
trubtall
trubu
trucage
trucages
truce
trucebreaker
trucebreakers
truced
truceless
truces

Literary usage of Truantry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"... highly rational system of truantry, which cost me a great deal of trouble to put in exercise — perhaps as much as would have taught me Greek — and sent ..."

2. Works of Robert Louis Stephenson by Robert Louis Stevenson (1906)
"Indeed, I denied myself many opportunities; acting upon an extensive and highly rational system of truantry, which cost me a great deal of trouble to put in ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"If you look back on your own education, I am sure it will not be the full, vivid, instructive hours of truantry that you regret ; you would rather cancel ..."

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