truanting

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Verb[edit]

truanting

  1. present participle and gerund of truant

Noun[edit]

truanting (countable and uncountable, plural truantings)

  1. Truancy.
    • 1850, George Searle Phillips, The Life, Character and Genius of Ebenezer Elliot the Corn Law Rhymer, page 88:
      At school he fared no better than at home; and unless he was consoled by his almost constant truantings in the woods and fields, his youth must have been one of unrelieved repining and despondency.

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