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petulance
(encz) | petulance,nedůtklivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
petulance
(encz) | petulance,nevrlost n: Zdeněk Brož |
petulance
(encz) | petulance,podrážděnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Petulance
(gcide) | Petulance \Pet"u*lance\, Petulancy \Pet"u*lan*cy\, n. [L.
petulania: cf. F. p['e]tulance. See Petulant.]
The quality or state of being petulant; temporary
peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The
petulancy of our words." --B. Jonson.
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Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.
--Clarendon.
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The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. --Cowper.
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Syn: Petulance, Peevishness. -- Peevishness implies the
permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies
temporary or capricious irritation.
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petulance
(wn) | petulance
n 1: an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability,
crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness,
petulance, choler] |
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