Usually means: Willful boldness or reckless daring.
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  1. protervity: Merriam-Webster
  2. protervity: Collins English Dictionary
  3. protervity: Wordnik
  4. protervity: Wiktionary
  5. Protervity: Dictionary.com
  6. Protervity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. protervity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Protervity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. protervity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. protervity: FreeDictionary.org
  11. protervity: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. protervity: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (rare) wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness

Similar:
pervicacy, peevishness, parvanimity, pettishness, petulcity, perversity, pervicacity, perviness, wantonness, vagarity, more...

Opposite:
humility, meekness, modesty

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Similar:
pervicacy, peevishness, parvanimity, pettishness, petulcity, perversity, pervicacity, perviness, wantonness, vagarity, more...

Opposite:
humility, meekness, modesty



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