10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCACITY»
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The Lost Words: A Feast of Forgotten Words, Their Origins ...
PROCACITY Forwardness and petulance. Sauciness or pertness. Unattractive
cheek. Latin procax,forwardor bold; hence, procacitas, impudence. Pronounce to
rhyme, broadly and bankerly, with 'Pro the City'. Not to be confused with precocity
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Pete May, Philip Howard, 2012
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Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases to Facilitate the ...
Temper, petulance, procacity, angry mood, taking, pique, huff, tiff, miff, pet,
umbrage. Cause of umbrage : affront, provocation, offence, indignity, insult (929),
casus belli. The Furies ; the Eumenides. V. To resent, take amiss, take offence,
take ...
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The Word Lover's Delight: Awesome Adjectives, Nifty Nouns, ...
pro-FOR -muh—conducted as a formality, perfunctory After the mayor's last rival
dropped out, the town had a one-candidate pro forma election. procacity (n.) pro-
KA-suh-tee—a propensity to display petulance The young man's procacity was ...
From the Editors of the Captivate Network, 2009
It is a wordy play with a senseless, superficial procacity that leads nowhere
because it is devoid of any motivation. The procacity found in the works of
Tennessee Williams, Berthold Brecht, Kafka and Gogol is meaningful because it
is always ...
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The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow: The treatise of the ...
... if that had been, Porphyrius with good colour of reason might have objected
procacity to St Paul in taxing his betters'; for he then, indeed, had shewed us no
commendable pattern of demeanour Nunquid ideo aut ilia ejus sequenda sunt, ...
Isaac Barrow, Alexander Napier, William Whewell, 1859
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Thesaurus of English words and phrases, enlarged by J.L. Roget
929 ; procacity, impudence; barbarism, -ity; misbehaviour, brutality,
blackguardism, conduct's unbecoming a gentleman, grossierete, brut- querie;
vulgarity &c. 85 1. churlishness &c. adj. ; spinosity, perversity; moroseness&c. (
suUenness) 901 ...
Peter Mark Roget, John Lewis Roget, 1884
Dr. John Brown in his Horae Subsecivae (Third Series, Edinburgh, 1882) said of
Jeffrey's mouth that it was "mobile and yet firm, arch, and kind, with a beautiful
procacity or petulance about it, that you would not like absent in him, or present in
...
Adrian Hoffman Joline, 1911
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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review
... Prototype of its projection, then MAN: the very Cronologie of whose Errors doth
oompute his Ezistency, an ingratefull returne for the dignity of his Essence, which
unmolested and freed from the Procacity of his Junior and l1't/l37'i01' faculties, ...
H Biglow, Orville Luther Holley, 1818
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The Northumberland and Newcastle Monthly Magazine for the ...
I shall not 'avail' myself of the opportunity to shine with borrowed lustre; but
content myself by adhereing to plain facts in a stile unadorned by procacity ; and
leave him the possession of his native dignity. ' ' Camber' insinuates that I know
him ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Struggle '). This paper was edited by one Don Agustin Cervantes — not, one
hopes, a descendant of the known American branch of the family of the author of '
Don Quixote.' The 'Tribuna,' "with an unrivalled procacity and in scandalous ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROCACITY»
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An Argentine opera in English and Latin
Cachafaz, based on a text by Copi, was completely and utterly revulsive in its unrelieved procacity, and the few interesting musical moments, ... «Buenos Aires Herald, Jun 14»
