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† ˈinsolency Obs.
[ad. L. insolēntia: see prec. n. and -ency.]
1. The quality of being insolent; = insolence 1.
1494Fabyan Chron. v. lxxxvii. 64 After hym shal come a Childe or Childer, that shalbe of suche Insolency and wastynge, that..[they] shall..waste and destroye by theyr folyes all that other noble men hath purchased to their handes. 1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 12 §1 For the Repressing of the Insolency and Unruliness of Men. a1577Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. (1609) 8 The frailtie of mans nature..cannot abide or beare long that absolute and vncontrolled authoritie, without swelling into too much pride and insolencie. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I 62 Those made him proud, overvaluing himselfe, and under-valuing others, and infected with a kinde of insolency. 1698[R. Ferguson] View Eccles. 34 Acting with that Insolency, which may administer occasion to Sathan and his Instruments to reproach Religion.
b. with an and pl. = insolence n. 1 c.
1581Savile Tacitus, Agric. (1622) 189 The Britans endure leuies of men and money..if insolencies bee forborne, indignities they cannot abide. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. i. 4 Vainly attempting not only insolencies, but impossibilities, he deceived himselfe as low as hell. 1680–90Temple Ess. Pop. Discont. Wks. 1731 I. 264 To secure our Trade from the Danger of all Turkish Pyracies, or sudden Insults or Insolencies of our Neighbours. 1698W. Chilcot Evil Thoughts vi. (1851) 74 The reason of fasting being made a duty, is in order to tame the insolencies of the flesh. 1729G. Shelvocke Artillery v. 355 The Grecians observed them [revels of Bacchus] with the most horrid Excesses and Insolencies imaginable. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 432 They keep up a small fleet for curbing the insolencies of the piratical states of Barbary.
c. transf. = insolence n. 1 d.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 760 A truer conversion of the American world, then hitherto our Humorists, or Spanish insolencies have intended.
2. Unusualness: = insolence n. 3. With an and pl. An unusual act or occurrence.
1612Donne Lett. (1651) 123 The D. of Espernon..with 600 horse in his train..came with him into the court: which is an insolency remarkable here. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. Disc. xvi. §5. 58 Every ill example..is a scandall, because it invites others to do the like..taking off the strangenesse and insolency of the act. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II, xlv, Strange Insolencyes and vnheard of Things..They act. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 131 The History of Præternatural Occurrences..Such insolencies in Nature give us to understand, that the most common rules of Natural Operation are not without exception.
b. Affectedness in the choice of unusual words. [L. insolentia verborum.]
1644Bulwer Chiron. 33 In the Primitive times of elocution, when eloquence began to flowre and bud, and insolencie was rarely entertained. |