insolence
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɪnsələns/
insolence
- Arrogant conduct; insulting, bold behaviour or attitude.
- c. 1908–52, W.D. Ross, transl., The Works of Aristotle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Rhetoric, II.1389b11, by Aristotle, OCLC 369755, page 636:
- They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 14:
- all the insolence of imaginary superiority
- c. 1908–52, W.D. Ross, transl., The Works of Aristotle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Rhetoric, II.1389b11, by Aristotle, OCLC 369755, page 636:
- Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
- (obsolete) The quality of being unusual or novel.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe:
- 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.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe:
- German: Unverfrorenheit, Frechheit, Unverschämtheit, Dreistigkeit, Anmaßung
- Portuguese: insolência
- Russian: надме́нность
- Spanish: insolencia
insolence (insolences, present participle insolencing; past and past participle insolenced)
- (obsolete) To insult.
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