Truantry

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    truancy countable, uncountable

    "Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time."

Example

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"Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time."

Etymology

From truant + -ry.

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