Meaning of PETULANCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pechuluns
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| | Definition: | | [n] an irritable petulant feeling |
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| | Synonyms: | | choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| | See Also: | | ill humor, ill humour, pet, testiness, tetchiness, touchiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | arbitrariness, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, caprice, capriciousness, cold comfort, complaining, complaint, crankiness, crotchetiness, destructive criticism, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disgruntlement, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, dissent, divine discontent, envy, fancifulness, fantasticality, faultfinding, Faustianism, freakishness, fretfulness, grievance, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouse, grousing, grumbling, holler, howl, humorsomeness, ill humor, kick, kicking, moodiness, motivelessness, murmuring, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, pettishness, petulancy, protest, querulousness, quirkiness, rebelliousness, resentfulness, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, scolding, shrewishness, sniping, sourness, squawk, squawking, sulkiness, temperamentalness, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, vixenishness, whimsicality, whimsicalness, whimsy, whining, yapping |
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