different between insolence vs ignominy

English

Etymology

From Middle French insolence, from Latin ?nsolentia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ns?l?ns/

Noun

insolence (countable and uncountable, plural insolences)

1. 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

2. Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
3. (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.

Derived terms

• insolency

Translations

Verb

insolence (third-person singular simple present insolences, present participle insolencing, simple past and past participle insolenced)

1. (obsolete) To insult.

Anagrams

• incensole, selenonic

French

Etymology

From Latin ?nsolentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.s?.l??s/

Noun

insolence f (plural insolences)

1. insolence

Related terms

• insolent

Further reading

• “insolence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ignominie, from Latin ign?minia, from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?g?n?-m?n'?, IPA^(key): /???n??m?ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???n??m?ni/, /???n?m?ni/, /???n?m?ni/

Noun

ignominy (countable and uncountable, plural ignominies)

1. Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
   • a. 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Andrews McMeel, ?ISBN, page 168:

     Calvin: Our great plan backfired and I'm the one who got soaked! Oh, the shame! The ignominy!

Related terms

• ignominious

Translations