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insolences

insolences is the plural of insolence.

Meaning of insolence

Noun

insolence (countable and uncountable, plural insolences)

  1. Contemptible, ill-mannered conduct; insulting: arrogant, bold behaviour or attitude.
    • all the insolence of imaginary superiority1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 14, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC
  2. Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
    • Two heavy iron chains were put about his neck, (in metal and weight different from them he bore before!) and, loaded with fetters and insolences from the soldiers, (who in such ware seldom give scant measure,) he was brought into the presence of Isaacius.1652, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, and the Profane State, page 442
  3. (obsolete) 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.1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about insolences

What is insolences the plural of?
Insolences is the plural of insolence.

Words near insolences in the dictionary

  1. insolations
  2. insole
  3. insoled
  4. insolence
  5. insolenced
  6. insolences
  7. insolencies
  8. insolencing
  9. insolency
  10. insolent
  11. insolently

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