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protervities

protervities is the plural of protervity.

Meaning of protervity

Noun

protervity (countable and uncountable, plural protervities)

  1. (rare) wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness
    • A vain and frail protervity, an envious prattling.Samson Lennard: Of Wisdom, bk.I,ch.XXXV, 1651

Questions about protervities

What is protervities the plural of?
Protervities is the plural of protervity.

Words near protervities in the dictionary

  1. proterotype
  2. proterotypes
  3. proterozoic
  4. proterrorist
  5. proters
  6. protervities
  7. protervity
  8. protesomal
  9. protesome
  10. protest
  11. protest song

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