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truantship

truantship noun: truancy.

Noun

truantship (uncountable)

  1. truancy
    • I would not have the master either frown or chide with him, if the child have done his diligence, and used no truantship therein.c. 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster

Origin of truantship

From truant + -ship.

Questions about truantship

What does truantship mean?
Truantship means truancy.
What part of speech is truantship?
Truantship is a noun.

Words near truantship in the dictionary

  1. truantly
  2. truantness
  3. truantries
  4. truantry
  5. truants
  6. truantship
  7. truar
  8. truars
  9. Truax
  10. trub
  11. Trubetzkoyan

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