Also truantcy. [f. TRUANT + -CY.] The action, or an act, of playing truant; truant conduct or practice.
1784. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 24 April. I had many flattering reproaches for my late truancy from these parties.
1809. Charleston Courier, 27 Dec., 2/1. The stranger students at these seminaries … are apt to relax their diligence, and contract habits of truancy and dissipation.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., VII. iii. (1872), II. 270. Suggesting to him idle truantcies or worse.
1905. W. B. Boulton, Life Gainsborough, 12. The boy … brought back … a collection of sketches as the result of the day’s truancy.
