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Insolence
Definitions
- 1 Contemptible, ill-mannered conduct; insulting: arrogant, bold behaviour or attitude. countable, uncountable
"all the insolence of imaginary superiority"
- 2 an offensive disrespectful impudent act wordnet
- 3 Insolent conduct or treatment; insult. countable, uncountable
"Two heavy iron chains were put about his neck, (in metal and weight different from them he bore before!) and, loaded with fetters and insolences from the soldiers, (who in such ware seldom give scant measure,) he was brought into the presence of Isaacius."
- 4 the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties wordnet
- 5 The quality of being unusual or novel. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Her great excellence / Lifts me above the measure of my might / That being fild with furious insolence / I feele my selfe like one yrapt in spright."
- 1 To insult. obsolete
"...we are bound to assert that we never heard either in his public discourses or private conversation, anything that might tend towards encouraging sedition, or anyways insolencing the government"
Etymology
From Middle French insolence, from Latin īnsolentia.
From Middle French insolence, from Latin īnsolentia.
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