protervity noun.
[prǝ'tǝ:vɪti] Now
rare.
L15.[French protervité or Latin protervitas, from protervus forward, pert, impudent: see -ITY.]Waywardness; stubbornness; pertness, impudence, insolence; petulance; an instance of this.
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