truantry

[ troo-uhn-tree ]

noun

, plural tru·ant·ries.

1. truancy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of truantry¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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