insolency
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The p. 163Emperor Justinian made a law to correct the behaviour of the clergy, and to cut short the insolency of the priests.
From The Apology of the Church of England by Lady Ann Bacon
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 Herbert Strang
Accordingly he restrains himself for a little while, chafing beneath the delay, and then, a soldier or two being suddenly struck down by the fire, he exclaims, "Yea! this insolency is not to be endured."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various
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 Thomas Carlyle
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 Eva Scott
