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Definition: PETULANCY |
PETULANCYNoun1. The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. |
Date "PETULANCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Jeremy Taylor | Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "PETULANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të qenët idhnak (petulance), qaravitje (cavil, nagging, petulance, snivel, whimper), irritueshmëri (petulance), gërnjosje (petulance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etulancypay раздражительность (crossness, crustiness, grumpiness, impatience, irascibility, irritability, peevishness, petulance, soreness, temper, testiness, touchiness). (various references) роздратування (anger, annoyance, chafe, disgust, distemper, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, harass, inflammation, irritation, needle, peeve, petulance, pique, provocation, teen), нетерплячість (intolerance, petulance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"PETULANCY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: petulanty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-n-p-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: eucalypt. | |
-2 letters: acutely, aplenty, cleanup, ectypal, latency, patency, penalty, unaptly. | |
-3 letters: acetyl, auntly, cantle, caplet, cental, culpae, cuneal, cutely, eluant, lacune, lancet, launce, lucent, lunacy, lunate, neatly, peanut, pentyl, penult, placet, planet, platen, plenty, teacup, unlace, yclept. | |
-4 letters: acute, aptly, aunty, canty, caput, centu, clapt, clean, cleat, clept, culet, culpa, cupel, cutey, eclat, enact. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-n-p-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: counterplay. | |
+3 letters: conceptually, counterplays, unacceptably. | |
+4 letters: conceptuality, counterplayer, pneumatically, pneumatolytic, unpredictably. | |
+5 letters: counterplayers, percutaneously, pertinaciously, unemphatically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 54 55 4C 41 4E 43 59 |
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