Etymology

protervity

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Today it means: wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness Full definition →

Latin protervitas
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  1. Latin · derived fromprotervitas
  2. English todayprotervity

Latin protervitas, from protervus (“violent, wanton”).

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