insolency

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My greatest joy is to have ben so happie as to have bin a small instrument in this last encounter, to chastise so high an insolency as that of the Dutch.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

But he naturally spoke of the matter to George I.; whose patience, often fretted by complaints on that head, seems to have taken fire at this transcendent instance of Prussian insolency.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

One day a man or theirs was forwearned for his insolency, for not referring to the Governor, doing all out of his owne head.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit

Indeed, I was already not a little disturbed in my mind, foreseeing that if the fellow would put on this insolency of bearing so soon, we should go through rough water presently.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

There will appear at the last day strange and unexpected examples, both of His justice and His mercy; and therefore to define either is folly in man, and insolency even in the devils. 

From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander