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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.
[L. procacitas.]
Impudence; petulance. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


procacity

procacity

English

Noun

procacity (usually uncountable, plural procacities)

  1. (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.