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ˈmalapertness Obs. exc. arch.
[f. malapert a. + -ness.]
The quality of being malapert.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas iv. xv. (1494) p vi b, Moost cruelte and vengeaunce in lowe blode with malapertnesse and indiscrecion. 1563N. Winzet Wks. (1890) II. 24 The malepeirtnes of prophane noueltie. 1579–80North Plutarch, Alex. Gt. (1595) 745 Clitus..would not giue ouer his impudencie and malapertenesse. 1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 17 Daphnis was vext to see the horn broke, and that kind of malepertnesse of the Goat. 1682Bunyan Holy War 92 Yet he had for his malapertness, one of his legs broken. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 422 Such was their malapertness that great disorders would have ensued. |