Definition of "truancy" []

• The act or condition of being absent without permission. (noun)

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• "In similar fashion, the book-love of the minor Romantics (a kind of mimic or miniaturized bibliomania) allowed for a certain truancy to the high Romantic notions of authorship and the literary imagination that those same essayists were devoted to promulgating."
• "At Pimlico School, the comprehensive I attended, we used to call truancy "bunking off"."
• "Yes it can get revoked as you need to show proof of being in school (Its called truancy) until you are in college."