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Webster 1913 Edition
Procacity
Pro-cac′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
procacitas
.] Forwardness; pertness; petulance.
[R.]
Burton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Procacity
PROCAC'ITY
,Noun.
Impudence; petulance. [Little used.]
Definition 2024
procacity
procacity
English
Noun
procacity (usually uncountable, plural procacities)
- (dated) forwardness; pertness; petulance; an instance of such.
- 1624, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Seuerall Cures of it : in Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members & Subsections, second edition, Henry Cripps, published 1638, page 541:
- In vain are all your flatteries, In vain are all your knaveries, Delights, deceipts, procacities, Sighs, kisses, and conspiracies, And what e're is done by art, To bewitch a lovers heart.
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