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insultment

insultment noun: insolent treatment; insult.

Noun

insultment (usually uncountable, plural insultments)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Insolent treatment; insult.
    • He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, —which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, —to the court I’'ll knock her back, foot her home again.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Forms of insultment

pluralinsultments

Origin of insultment

From insult + -ment?

Questions about insultment

What does insultment mean?
Insultment means insolent treatment; insult.
What part of speech is insultment?
Insultment is a noun.
What is the plural of insultment?
The plural of insultment is insultments.

Words near insultment in the dictionary

  1. insulting one's intelligence
  2. insultingly
  3. insultingness
  4. insultings
  5. insultive
  6. insultment
  7. insultments
  8. insultory
  9. insultproof
  10. insultry
  11. insults

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