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Word Meanings - TRUANTSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy. Ascham.

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  • TRUANT
    One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out
  • CONDUCTIVITY
    The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
  • TRUANCY
    The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.
  • TRUANTLY
    Like a truant; in idleness.
  • CONDUCTRESS
    A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
  • CONDUCTOR
    The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
  • CONDUCTIBILITY
    1. Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity. 2. Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.
  • CONDUCT
    1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct
  • NEGLECTION
    The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
  • CONDUCTION
    Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity. communication from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc. (more info) 1.
  • NEGLECTFUL
    Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
  • EMPLOYMENT
    1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
  • NEGLECTEDNESS
    The state of being neglected.
  • CONDUCTORY
    Having the property of conducting.
  • NEGLECTER
    One who neglects. South.
  • ASCHAM
    A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.
  • NEGLECT
    disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
  • NEGLECTINGLY
    Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
  • IDLENESS
    The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness. Syn. -- Inaction; indolence; sluggishness; sloth.
  • CONDUCTANCE
    Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm. Conductance is an attribute of any specified conductor, and refers to its shape, length, and other factors. Conductivity is an attribute of
  • UNEMPLOYMENT
    Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • SELF-NEGLECTING
    A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
  • NONCONDUCTING
    Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
  • DISEMPLOYMENT
    The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
  • MISCONDUCT
    Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
  • RADIOCONDUCTOR
    A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.
  • MISEMPLOYMENT
    Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
  • UNDERCONDUCT
    A lower conduit; a subterranean conduit. Sir H. Wotton.
  • NONCONDUCTOR
    A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of

 

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