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Procacity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being procacious; forwardness, pertness, or petulance, or an instance thereof. dated, uncountable, usually

    "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."

Etymology

From procac(ious) + -ity, from Latin procacitas.

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