truantry

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noun

truancy

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Meanings

nountruantry (countable and uncountable, plural truantries)

plural truantries

  1. countableuncountabletruancy

    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.

    1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

Origin

From truant + -ry.

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APA

truantry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truantry

MLA

“truantry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truantry. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “truantry,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truantry.

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