dial. var. TRUANT. Hence (nonce-wds.) Trivanting a., playing the truant; † Trivantly a. or adv. ? idle or idly.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. III. xv. 181. These men … cannot distinguish betwixt a true Schollar, and … him that by reason of a voluble tongue, and some triuantly [ed. 1624 adds Polyanthean] helps, steales and gleanes a few notes from other mens haruests. Ibid. (1624), Democr. to Rdr. (ed. 2), 8. A trifler, a triuant, thou art an idle fellow.
1851–85. Trivant, trivent in Eng. Dial. Dict., from Chesh., Leic., Northants., and Oxf.
[1863. Sala, Capt. Dangerous, I. iv. 90. Those trifling and trivanting gentlewomen that pull diseases on to their pates with drums and routs, and late hours.]
