Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of truant
nountruanting (countable and uncountable, plural truantings)
plural truantings
- countableuncountableTruancy.
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.
1850, George Searle Phillips, The Life, Character and Genius of Ebenezer Elliot the Corn Law Rhymer, page 88
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