Terms vs Procacity - What's the difference?
terms | procacity |
(dated) forwardness; pertness; petulance; an instance of such.
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, passage= 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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(Webster 1913)