• Petulance

    Full definition of petulance

    Noun

    petulance

    (countable and uncountable; plural petulances)
    1. The property of being petulant.
      • ClarendonLike pride in some, and like petulance in others.
      • CowperThe lowering eye, the petulance, the frown.
      • 1857, Anthony_Trollope, , 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.
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