† insolencyn.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxvii. f. xxxiiii After hym shal come a Childe or Childer that shalbe of suche Insolency and wastynge that..[they] shall..waste and destroye by theyr folyes all that other noble men hath purchased to their handes.

1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 12 §1 For the Repressing of the Insolency and Unruliness of Men.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. viii. 8 The frailtie of mans nature..cannot abide or beare long that absolute and vncontrowled authoritie, without swelling into too much pride and insolencie.

1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James 62 Those made him proud, overvaluing himselfe, and under-valuing others, and infected with a kinde of insolency.

1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 34 Acting with that Insolency, which may administer occasion to Sathan and his Instruments to reproach Religion.

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 245 The Britans endure leuies of men and money..if insolencies be forborne, indignities they cannot abide.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. i. 4 Vainly attempting not only insolencies, but impossibilities, he deceived himselfe as low as hell. View more context for this quotation

1698 W. Chilcot Pract. Treat. Evil Thoughts vi. 161 The reason of Fasting's being made a duty, is in order to tame the insolencies of the flesh.

a1699 W. Temple Ess. Pop. Discontents in Wks. (1731) I. 264 To secure our Trade from the Danger of all Turkish Pyracies, or sudden Insults or Insolencies of our Neighbours.

1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 355 The Grecians observed them [revels of Bacchus] with the most horrid Excesses and Insolencies imaginable.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 432 They keep up a small fleet for curbing the insolencies of the piratical states of Barbary.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 760 A truer conversion of the American world, then hitherto our Humorists, or Spanish insolencies have intended.

?1612 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 123 The D. of Espernon..with 600 horse in his train..came with him into the Court: which is an insolency remarkable here.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 58 Every ill example..is a scandall, because it invites others to do the like..taking off the strangenesse and insolency of the act.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II xlv, in Poems (1878) III. 148 Strange Insolencyes and vnheard of Things..They act.

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 131 The History of Præternatural Occurrences..Such insolencies in Nature give us to understand, that the most common rules of Natural Operation are not without exception.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 33 In the Primitive times of elocution, when eloquence began to flowre and bud, and insolencie was rarely entertained.