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truantry

[ troo-uhn-tree ]

noun

, plural tru·ant·ries.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of truantry1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; truant, -ry
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Example Sentences

The child has this truantry when he plays at Indian, for he fashions the universe to his desires.

Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry.

That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected me.

He was a little man, pale and stooped, but with a genius for truantry—a pilgrim of the Bagdad road.

There is something rather stirring in such prodigious marshaling, but I hear you ask what this has to do with truantry.

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