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protervity Now rare.|prəʊˈtɜːvɪtɪ|
[ad. obs. F. protervité, ad. L. protervitātem forwardness, pertness, etc.: see prec.]
Waywardness, frowardness, stubbornness; pertness, sauciness, insolence; peevishness, petulance; an instance of this.
c1500Proverbis in Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 409 They that of protervite will not tewne well, Ve, ve, ve, theyre songe shal be in hell. 1613Day Festivals viii. (1615) 233 If..we adde Protervitie, Stubbornnesse, and rude Behaviour. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 59 The queen, who formerly showed so much waspish protervity and waywardnesse. 1726C. D'Anvers Craftsman i. (1727) 10 The peevishness and protervity of age. 1838G. S. Faber Inquiry 516 The protervity of heretics in the very efforts of their falsehood. 1882Stevenson Fam. Studies 36 In his [Hugo's] poems and plays there are the same unaccountable protervities.
†b. fig. Applied obscurely (or erroneously) to a bodily deformity or disfigurement. Obs.
1661Feltham Resolves ii. iv. (ed. 8) 183 Some deformity in the mind..(as in certain naturall protervities in the body) they are seldome taking, but often begett a dislike. |