petulance

petulance

See also: pétulance

English

Etymology

From French pétulance, Middle French, from Latin petulantia

Noun

petulance (countable and uncountable, plural petulances)

1. The property of being petulant.
   • Clarendon

     Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.

   • Cowper

     The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown.

   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 29 →ISBN

     She had not done this, but had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance, and yet unable to discontinue it.

Synonyms

1. moodiness, caprice, capriciousness, tetchiness, arbitrariness, viciousness

Translations

the property of being petulant

German: Gereiztheit (de) f, Launenhaftigkeit f, Launigkeit f Italian: petulanza (it)

Latin: petulantia f Portuguese: petulância (pt) f