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procacities

procacities is the plural of procacity.

Meaning of procacity

Noun

procacity (usually uncountable, plural procacities)

  1. (dated, usually) The state of being procacious; forwardness, pertness, or petulance, or an instance thereof.
    • In vain are all your flatteries, In vain are all your knaveries, Delights, deceipts, procacities, Sighs, kisses, and conspiracies, And what e're is done by art, To bewitch a lovers heart.1624, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Seuerall Cures of it : in Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members...

Questions about procacities

What is procacities the plural of?
Procacities is the plural of procacity.

Words near procacities in the dictionary

  1. Procaccini
  2. Procaccinis
  3. procachectic
  4. procacious
  5. procaciously
  6. procacities
  7. procacity
  8. procainamide
  9. procaine
  10. procaine penicillin
  11. procaines

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