vbl. sb. [f. TRUANT v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRUANT; an instance of this.

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c. 1400.  [see TRUANT v. 1].

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1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 574/2. With three strypes for hys tarying and trewaunting by the way.

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1630.  Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd., III. xiv. § 12 (1670), 443. To save themselves from the rigour of the punishment, they have recourse to … false excuses,… flights, truantings.

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1884.  Hunter & Whyte, My Ducats, xx. (1885), 286. The sense of truanting gave a … spice of excitement to his reflections.

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