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procacity

procacity noun: the state of being procacious; forwardness, pertness, or petulance, or an instance thereof.

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...

procacity meaning in Urdu

procacity in Urdu

نفس پرستی

Forms of procacity

pluralprocacities

Origin of procacity

From Middle French procacité, from Latin procācitās (whence -acity), from Latin procāx (“bold, impudent”), from procō (“ask, demand”), from procus (“suitor”).

Questions about procacity

What does procacity mean?
Procacity means the state of being procacious; forwardness, pertness, or petulance, or an instance thereof.
What is procacity in Urdu?
Procacity in Urdu is نفس پرستی. See Procacity meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is procacity?
Procacity is a noun.
What is the plural of procacity?
The plural of procacity is procacities.

Words near procacity in the dictionary

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

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