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English
Etymology
From procac(ious) + -ity, from Latin procacitas.
Noun
procacity (usually uncountable, plural procacities)
- (dated) The state of being procacious; forwardness,pertness, or petulance, or an instance thereof.
1624, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Seuerall Cures of it : in Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members & Subsections, 2nd edition, Henry Cripps, published 1638, page 541:In vain are all your flatteries, In vain are all your knaveries, Delights, deceipts, procacities, Sighs, kisses, and conspiracies, And what e're is done by art, To bewitch a lovers heart.
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