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单词 arrogancy
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arrogancyn.

Brit. /ˈarəɡ(ə)nsi/, U.S. /ˈɛrəɡənsi/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s arrogancye, 1500s arogancye, 1500s arrogansie, 1500s arrogansy, 1500s arrogansye, 1500s arrogauncie, 1500s arrogauncy, 1500s arrogauncye, 1500s–1600s arogancie, 1500s–1600s arogancy, 1500s–1600s arrogancie, 1500s– arrogancy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin arrogantia.
Etymology: < classical Latin arrogantia arrogance n.; compare -ancy suffix. Compare earlier arrogance n.
1. Arrogance; the fact or quality of being arrogant.After the mid 17th cent., much less common than arrogance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [noun]
prideOE
overgartc1175
surquidrya1250
stuntisea1327
arrogance1340
insolencec1386
surquidyc1407
succudryc1425
lordliness1440
arrogancy1477
ogartc1480
wantonness?a1505
stateliness1509
insolencya1513
surquidancea1525
superbityc1540
imperiousness1582
surliness1587
super-arrogation1593
insolentness1594
assumption1609
self-assumption1609
huff1611
imperiosity1618
superarrogancy1620
lordship1633
self-assuming1644
alazony1656
high-handednessa1658
fast1673
arrogantness1756
overbearance1766
swaggera1821
huffishness1841
you-be-damnedness1885
high and mighty1924
1477 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Caxton) Ther is inobedience, auauntyng, ypocrysye, despyte, arrogancye, Imprudence, swelling of herte, Insolence, Elacion, pertynacye, veyn glorye.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 75 A certayne arrogancy, wherby..every Jake wold be a gentylman.
1611 Bible (King James) Prov. viii. 13 Pride and arrogancie, and the euill way..doe I hate. View more context for this quotation
1651 Faithful Scout No. 40. 310 There happened to be a Parliament Man of War, who..came with great arrogancy, demanding of the Dutch Fishermen the right of fishing.
1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. Pref. ix. p. xix Some Men are apt to advance such their Notions with great Arrogancy.
1779 E. Allen Narr. Captivity 37 As a specimen of their arrogancy, I shall insert Gen. Burgoyne's Proclamation.
1805 Aberdeen Jrnl. 28 Aug. The arrogancy and tyranny of the Prince of Peace have excited the indignation of the upper orders.
1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 5 And I don't wish to be arrogant myself, while preaching against arrogancy.
1972 Christian Heritage Oct. 5/1 Our way of measuring poverty..is producing a type of arrogancy in America which brutalizes people no less viciously than enemies brutalize the Kachins in northern Burma.
2011 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 20 Feb. d3 Team leaders would keep Martinez in check if he started sliding toward arrogancy.
2. An instance of being arrogant; an arrogant act, assumption, utterance, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [noun] > instance of
arrogancy?1532
arrogantness1563
arrogance1575
surquidry1602
self-assuming1644
?1532 Glasse of Truthe sig. E2v Me thinketh verily that it is to great an arrogancy for man so to vsurpe apon his maker.
1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. F1v Yet were it an intollerable arrogancie for vs to say, We fed thee when thou wast hungry.
1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 10 The titles of Sovran Lord, naturall Lord, and the like, are either arrogancies, or flatteries.
1696 J. Seller Hist. Eng. xi. 582 These Arrogancies being unsufferable, the Queens French Domesticks were paid off, and sent Home.
1733 J. Bland Ess. in Praise of Women viii. 221 Shake off those importunate Arrogancies and querulous Presumptions as are such Capital Enemies to Discipline and Truth.
1817 Examiner 23 Mar. 178/1 The still meaner arrogancies, which have arisen from the unnatural ascendancy of the silly and the servile.
1876 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 29 Nov. 2/7 The blinding jealousies and arrogancies that now make the danger threatening the peace of the world.
1914 T. P. Thompson in G. P. Curtis Beyond Road Rome 402 The exposition of a post-convert experience humanly told might partake of an apology or an arrogancy.
1987 ‘C. H. Rolph’ Further Particulars ix. 153 He was so well aware of his reputation for..arrogancies.
2016 Manly (Austral.) Daily (Nexis) 16 Jan. 41 Jump into the insecurities and arrogancies of their personas as delivered by this master ventriloquist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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