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Alt. of Petulancy

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  1. n. Alt. of Petulancy
  2. n. an irritable petulant feeling
  3. The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper. Syn. -- Petulance, Peevishness. -- Peevishness implies the permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies temporary or capricious irritation.
  4. n:100 n an irritable petulant feeling