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insolence
English
Etymology
From Middle French insolence, from Latin ?nsolentia
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ns?l?ns/
Noun
insolence (countable and uncountable, plural insolences)
- 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, 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, 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:
Derived terms
- insolency
Translations
Verb
insolence (third-person singular simple present insolences, present participle insolencing, simple past and past participle insolenced)
- (obsolete) To insult.
Anagrams
- incensole, selenonic
French
Etymology
From Latin ?nsolentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.s?.l??s/
Noun
insolence f (plural insolences)
- insolence
Related terms
- insolent
Further reading
- “insolence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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boldness
English
Etymology
From Middle English boldnesse, equivalent to bold +? -ness. Cognate with Scots baldness, bauldness (“boldness”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?bo?ldn?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??ldn?s/
- Hyphenation: bold?ness
Noun
boldness (usually uncountable, plural boldnesses)
- The state of being bold; courage.
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
- presumptuousness
- (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:courage
Translations
Anagrams
- bondless
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