petulance

See also: pétulance

English

Etymology

From French pétulance, Middle French, from Latin petulantia

Noun

petulance (countable and uncountable, plural petulances)

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

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

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