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insolent, a. (n.)|ˈɪnsələnt| [ad. L. insolēnt-em unaccustomed, unusual, excessive, immoderate, haughty, arrogant, insolent, f. in- (in-3) + solēnt-em, pr. pple. of solēre to be accustomed. Cf. F. insolent (R. Estienne, 1549).] I. †1. Proud, disdainful, haughty, arrogant, overbearing; offensively contemptuous of the rights or feelings of others. Said of the powerful, rich, or successful, their actions, etc. Obs. or blended with 2.
c1386Chaucer Pars T. ⁋325 Insolent is he that despiseth in his Iuggement alle othere folk, as to regard of his value and of his konnyng and of his spekyng and of his beryng. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 636/2 Thorough greatnes of their late conquests and seignories they grewe insolent. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 87 These being neerer..were most insolent upon that City. 1676tr. Guillatiere's Voy. Athens 16 A haughty insolent person who affected to make himself terrible. 1727–38Gay Fables i. xxiv. 26 ‘What arrogance!’ the snail replied; ‘How insolent is upstart pride!’ 1840Thirlwall Greece lvi. VII. 189 Antipater was neither insolent nor cruel. 1858Trench Synon. N.T. §30 (1876) 101 The boastful in words, the proud in thoughts, the insolent and injurious in acts. fig.1822Shelley Hellas 344 One star with insolent and victorious light Hovers above its fall. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. iii. (1849) 93 The insolent and unknown waters which had so swelled the river, shrunk within their banks. b. Comb., as insolent-looking adj.
1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 198 The numberless Jewish equipages with all those insolent-looking Hebrew women of the Leopoldstadt. 2. Contemptuous of rightful authority; presumptuously or offensively contemptuous; impertinently insulting. Said of those who treat superiors or equals with offensive familiarity or disrespect.
1678Marvell Growth Popery 4 This last and Insolentest attempt upon the credulity of mankind. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T., Matt. xii. 39–40 God will not gratifie their insolent demand. 1706Phillips, Insolent, saucy, bold, malapert, proud, haughty, disdainful, presumptuous. 1793Burke Policy Allies Wks. 1842 I. 604 Their revolutionary tribunals, where every idea of natural justice..have been trodden under foot with the most insolent mockery. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 128 Bonner's tongue was insolent, and under bad control. 1884Pae Eustace 69 He is an idle, drunken, insolent fellow. †3. Extravagant, immoderate, going beyond the bounds of propriety. Obs.
c1480Henryson Mor. Fab. i. ii, Damesellis wanton, and insolent, That fane wald play, and on the streit be sene. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 15 Thurston wasted..the goodes of that place, in lechery, and by other insolent meanes. 1712Steele Spect. No. 312 ⁋2 The constant Pursuit of Pleasure has in it something insolent and improper for our Being. Ibid. No. 426 ⁋4 All the Extremities of Houshold Expence, Furniture, and insolent Equipage. †4. (?) Swelling, exulting: in good sense. rare.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. (Arb.) 77 For dittie and amourous Ode I finde Sir Walter Rawleyghs vayne most loftie, insolent, and passionate. II. †5. Unfrequented. Obs. rare.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xii. 57 Where is lond vnkept & insolent [regio insolens et incustodita] Take from the tronke al clene, vntil so hie As beestis may..Atteyne. †6. Unaccustomed, unwonted, unusual, strange.
1586G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. To Rdr. A vij, If one chance to derive any word from the Latine, which is insolent to their eares..they forthwith make a jest at it. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 26 Letting passe to speake of the insolent greatnes of the Piramides of Memphis. 1608A. Willet Hexapla Exod. 468 This is an vnwonted and insolent signification of the word. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. x. (1627) 164 Words which are insolent, hard and out of use, are to be as warily avoided. 1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Bradford 181 This favour, though extraordinary and insolent, was thought well bestowed upon him by the whole University. 1665Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. viii. §3 The phrase is insolent, and the exposition violent. †7. Unused or unaccustomed to a thing; inexperienced. Obs.
c1480Henryson Orph. & Euryd. 20 Tendouris to yung and insolent. 1598Marston Pygmal. iv. 153 Would euer any erudite Pedant Seeme in his artles lines so insolent? B. n. An insolent person (in senses 1 and 2).
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 122 Out, insolent, thy bastard shall be King, That thou maist be a Queen, and checke the world! 1639tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman ii. 61 The salvation of these insolents, seems desperate, their repentance..Miracles. 1672J. Phillips Montelion's Predict. 10 What Christian will be a Second to such Insolents? 1765H. Walpole Otranto v. (1798) 82 Thou art an insolent. 1898Academy 8 Oct. 28/1, I am [acquainted] with insolents, and you are one. |