truantry

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tru·ant·ry

(tro͞o′ən-trē)

n. pl. tru·ant·ries

Truancy.

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truantry

(ˈtruːəntrɪ)

an archaic word for truancy

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truantry

noun

An unexcused absence:

cut, truancy.

Informal: hooky.

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Well, now that I had found the boat, you would have thought I had had enough of truantry for once, but in the meantime I had taken another notion and become so obstinately fond of it that I would have carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain Smollett himself.