Malapertness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The condition of being malapert. obsolete, uncountable
"if once it be possessed with the boldnesse to despise, and malapertnesse to impugne the opinions which tofore it held in awfull reverence […], they will soone and easily admit an equall uncertainty in all other parts of their beleefe […]."
Example
More examples"if once it be possessed with the boldnesse to despise, and malapertnesse to impugne the opinions which tofore it held in awfull reverence […], they will soone and easily admit an equall uncertainty in all other parts of their beleefe […]."
Etymology
From Middle English malepertnesse; equivalent to malapert + -ness.
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