Truanting

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Truancy. countable, uncountable

    "At school he fared no better than at home; and unless he was consoled by his almost constant truantings in the woods and fields, his youth must have been one of unrelieved repining and despondency."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of truant form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"At school he fared no better than at home; and unless he was consoled by his almost constant truantings in the woods and fields, his youth must have been one of unrelieved repining and despondency."

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