Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Petulance

Petulance , noun

[Latin petulania: compare French pétulance. See Petulant.]

The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
The petulancy of our words. — B. Jonson
Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. — Clarendon
The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. — Cowper

Also: Petulancy