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petulance

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛtjʊləns/Part of speech nounSorted aceelnptuStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an irritable petulant feeling

Word origin

From Middle French pétulance, and its source, Latin petulantia.

Used in a sentence

  • [W]ise men knew, that that, which looked like pride in some, and like petulance in others, would, by experience in affairs, and conversation amongst men, both of which most of them wanted, be in time wrought off […]
  • I believe I was guilty of a petulance, which nothing but my uneasy situation can excuse; if that can.
  • She […] had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance, and yet unable to discontinue it.

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