Definition of Petulency
{ Pet"u*lance (?), Pet"u*lan*cy (?), }
n. [L. petulania: cf. F.
pétulance. See Petulant.] 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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