[f. TRUANT sb. + -ISM.] The practice of a truant; truancy.
1812. J. J. Henry, Camp. agst. Quebec, 13. His own education, though made by his truantisms … an incorrect one.
1855. The Jeffersonian, 11 Oct., 1/5. From disobedience and truantism, he goes on to dissipation and crime.
1875. G. Dawson, Shaks. Lect. (1888), 117. He … neglected his studies with that persistent truantism some great men have been guilty of.
