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PETULANCY

Definition: PETULANCY

PETULANCY

Noun

1. The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PETULANCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Familiar Quotations: PETULANCY

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Modern Translations: PETULANCY

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

   

Russian 

  

раздражительность (crossness, crustiness, grumpiness, impatience, irascibility, irritability, peevishness, petulance, soreness, temper, testiness, touchiness). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

роздратування (anger, annoyance, chafe, disgust, distemper, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, harass, inflammation, irritation, needle, peeve, petulance, pique, provocation, teen), нетерплячість (intolerance, petulance). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: PETULANCY

Misspellings

"PETULANCY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: petulanty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PETULANCY

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PETULANCY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 45 54 55 4C 41 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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