Sekirov Dictionary

truant

/ˈtɹuːənt/

adjective 3
noun 3
verb 2
forms 3

adjective3

•
Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
- Ham[let]. And vvhat in faith make you from VVittenberg? / Hora[tio]. A truant disposition good my Lord. — 1599
•
Of a student: absent from school without permission.
- He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.
(no longer used) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.

noun3

•
A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
- [S]ince I pluckt Geese, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately. — 1597
•
An idle or lazy person; an idler.
- For my part I may speake it to my shame, / I haue a truant beene to Chiualrie, […] — 1597
•
(no longer used) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
- Hang him truant, theres no true drop of bloud in him to be truly toucht vvith loue, if he be sadde, he vvantes money. — 1598

verb2

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Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
- The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high.
•
(no longer used) To idle away or waste (time).
- I dare not be the Author / Of trevvanting the time then, neither vvill I. — 1635

forms

truanted · truanting · truants

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