English

Noun

procacity ‎(usually uncountable, plural procacities)

1. (dated) forwardness; pertness; petulance; an instance of such.
   • 1624, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Seuerall Cures of it : in Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members & Subsections, second edition, Henry Cripps, published 1638, page 541:

     In vain are all your flatteries, In vain are all your knaveries, Delights, deceipts, procacities, Sighs, kisses, and conspiracies, And what e're is done by art, To bewitch a lovers heart.