Insultment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Insolent treatment; insult. obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, —which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, —to the court I’'ll knock her back, foot her home again."

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"He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, —which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, —to the court I’'ll knock her back, foot her home again."

Etymology

From insult + -ment?

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