protervity
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editEtymology
editLatin protervitas, from protervus (“violent, wanton”).
Noun
editprotervity (countable and uncountable, plural protervities)
- (rare) wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness
- Samson Lennard: Of Wisdom, bk.I,ch.XXXV, 1651:
- A vain and frail protervity, an envious prattling.
- Samson Lennard: Of Wisdom, bk.I,ch.XXXV, 1651:
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