protervity

noun

1. wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness

   countable, rare, uncountable

   A vain and frail protervity, an envious prattling.

Where it comes from

Latin protervitas, from protervus (“violent, wanton”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry protervity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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