insolence

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Contemptible, ill-mannered conduct

   Contemptible, ill-mannered conduct; insulting: arrogant, bold behaviour or attitude.

   • all the insolence of imaginary superiority
2. 2

   Insolent conduct or treatment

   Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.

3. 3

   The quality of being unusual or novel.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To insult.

      • ...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
      • bishops, who were first foully insolenced and assaulted.

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