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Definitions for: Petulance [n] an irritable petulant feeling
Webster (1913) 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.
Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness
See Also: ill humor, ill humour, pet, testiness, tetchiness, touchiness
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