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Definition of Insolences
1. insolence [n] - See also: insolence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insolences
Literary usage of Insolences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions by Robert South (1823)
"verse of the first chapter, persons that should act all the insolences upon them,
that victory in conjunction with ill-nature could prompt them to: men ..."
2. Notes on Orkney and Zetland: Illustrative of the History, Antiquities by Alexander Peterkin (1822)
"... commit mony great enormities and insolences upon his Majesty's poor people,
inhabitants within the said bounds ; whereupon mony complaints has been made ..."
3. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"If these go shopping without a gentleman or a man servant, they are tolerably
sure to be subjected to petty insolences—insolences of manner and tone, ..."
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