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Definition: Insolence |
InsolenceNoun1. The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties. 2. An offensive disrespectful impudent act. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "insolence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Insolence (Latin, in-soleo.) Unusual conduct, that is, not according to the common courtesies of social life. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: InsolenceSynonyms: cheekiness (n), crust (n), freshness (n), gall (n), impertinence (n), impudence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Noun: insolence; haughtiness; Adjective: arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; Verb: tyranny. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Insolence |
| English words defined with "insolence": Contemptuousness ♦ Insolency ♦ Purse pride ♦ Surquidry ♦ To lift up the heel against ♦ Way warden. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "insolence": Pursy, Pursiness ♦ Rukenaw ♦ Wassailers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "insolence": Insolency. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Insolence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (impertinence, insolence). |
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Screenplays | Dare to seek me out again and you insolence will be punished tenfold (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Wit is educated insolence. |
Dr. Samuel Johnson | Patron: a wretch who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery. |
John Milton | And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power. |
Robert G. Ingersoll | Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. |
Theognis | Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But whether the mischief hath oftener begun in the peoples wantonness, and a desire to cast off the lawful authority of their rulers, or in the rulers insolence, and endeavours to get and exercise an arbitrary power over their people; whether oppression, or disobedience, gave the first rise to the disorder, I leave it to impartial history to determine. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Across the state, across the laws, across the prosperity and the insolence of others |
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| "Insolence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.41% of the time. "Insolence" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.41% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "insolence": piece of insolence. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
insolence | 32 |
insolence lyrics | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "insolence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paturpësi (backchat, brass, cheek, effrontery, face, gall, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, indecency, lewdness, liberty, lubricity, sauce, shamelessness, wantonness), pafytyrësi (backchat, effrontery, impertinence, lip, sauce). (various references) | |
Arabic | وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, lip, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness), غطرسة (arrogance, assumption, haughtiness, lordliness, perkiness, pride, strut, superciliousness), عجرفة (arrogance, haughtiness, lordliness, smugness, snobbery, snootiness), إهانة (affront, crinkle, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, indignity, injury, insult, mortification, offence, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness, umbrage). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, lip, mouth, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), наглост (effrontery, impertinence, impudence), арогантност (arrogance, assumption, presumption). (various references) | |
Czech | drzost (audacity, brass, cheek, effrontery, face, front, impertinence, impudence, nerve, rudeness, sauce). (various references) | |
Farsi | گستاخی (Arrogance, Assurance, Audacity, Bronze, Effrontery, Gall, Impertinence, Impudence, Indecency, Presumption), غرور (Assumption, Conceit, Pride, Ruffe, Vainglory, Vanity), تکبر (Arrogance, Height, Pride, Ruffe), توهین (Insult, Libel, Offense, Vituperation), خودبینی (Arrogance, Assumption, Conceit, Vanity), جسارت (Audacity, Effrontery, Presumption, Spleen, Temerity, Venture), اهانت (Baffle, Contempt, Disdain, Disrespect, Impertinence, Offense), ادعای بیخود, بی احترامی (Disrepute, Disrespect). (various references) | |
Finnish | röyhkeys (arrogance, impudence), hävyttömyys (effrontery, impudence, shamelessness). (various references) | |
French | insolence, impertinence, outrecuidance, effronterie. (various references) | |
German | frechheit (barefacedness, brashness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, effrontery, freshness, frivolity, gall, immodesty, impudence, naughtiness, nerve, ribaldry, sass, sassiness, sauce, sauciness). (various references) | |
Greek | αυθάδεια (audacity, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, pertness, precocity, sauce, sauciness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מליאת לב (impertinence, impudence), פריצות (degeneration, lawlessness, licentiousness, obscenity, orgy, vice, violence), עוז פ ים (impudence), עזות מצח (impudence), עזות פ ים (boldness, effrontery), חוצפ" (audacity, effrontery, gall, impertinence, impudence, liberty, pertness, presumption), חוצפ ות (impudence), "תחצפות (impertinence), "עז" (audacity, bravado, daring, hazard, impertinence, nerve, temerity, venture), 'לוי פ ים (impudence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemtelenség (audaciousness, audacity, brashness, brass, cheek, confidence, effrontery, hubris, impertinence, impudence, pertness, presumption, puppyism, sauce, sauciness), kihívó viselkedés. (various references) | |
Italian | insolenza (contumely, hubris, sass), impertinenza (cheekiness, impertinence, naughtiness, pertness, sassiness, sauce), sfacciataggine (cheek, sauciness), petulanza (impertinence, petulance). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 横柄 (arrogance, haughtiness), 傍若無人 (arrogance, audacity, defiance, outrageously as though there were no one around, overbearing), 傲慢無礼 , 傲慢 (arrogance, haughtiness, hubris, pride), 不遜 (arrogance, disrespect), 不' (breach of etiquette, misconduct, rudeness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうへい (arrogance, haughtiness), ぼうじゃくぶじ" (arrogance, audacity, defiance, outrageously as though there were no one around, overbearing), ふそ" (arrogance, disrespect), ふらち (breach of etiquette, misconduct, rudeness), "うま"ぶれい, "うま" (arrogance, arrogant, conceited, haughtiness, hubris, pride, proud). (various references) | |
Manx | neuyeeillaght, neuarrym (disregard). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | insolenceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insolência (audacity, cockiness, contumely, mouth, pride, rudeness, sass, sauce), falta de respeito (flippancy), audácia (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, confidence, daring), atrevimento (boldness, cheek, daring, sauce). (various references) | |
Romanian | insolenţã (cheek, contumely, face, impertinence, piece of insolence), impertinenţã (boldness, effrontery, impertinence, obtrusiveness, pertness, rudeness), obrãznicie (audacity, blunder, brass, break, cheek, coolness, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, lip, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, sauce, trespass, unruliness). (various references) | |
Russian | наглость (assuredness, audaciousness, chutzpah, effrontery, face, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impudence, nerve, sauce, snoutiness). (various references) | |
Scottish | uabhar (pride, vainglory). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bezobrazluk (contumely, gall, impudence, sauce). (various references) | |
Spanish | insolencia (impertinence, impudence, lip, piece of insolence). (various references) | |
Swedish | oförskämdhet (effrontery, immodesty, impertinence, impertinency, impudence). (various references) | |
Turkish | saygısızlık (defiance, discourtesy, disrespect, flippancy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, inconsiderateness, indignity, irreverence, liberty, sauciness, slight), küstahlık (arrogance, assuredness, audaciousness, audacity, back chat, backchat, boldness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpa, chutzpah, effrontery, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hardiness, impertinence, lip, pertness, presumption, temerity), arsızlık (audacity, cheek, cheekiness, crust, effrontery, encroaching vigor, flippancy, front, hardihood, hardiness, immodesty, importunity, impudence, pertness, sauce, shamelessness), aşağılama (abasement, contempt, contemptuousness, disparagement, humiliation, insult, mortification, opprobrium). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, contumely, effrontery, hardihood, insolency, neck, nerve, sauce), пихатість (assuming, assumption, bombast, haughtiness, insolency, magniloquence, prance, uppity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính xấc láo, tính láo xược (sauciness), sự xấc láo (impertinence, impertinency), sự láo xược (impertinence, impertinency, rudeness), lời láo xược. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | hybris. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arrogantia, arrogantiam, importunitas, inflationes. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "insolence": insolences. (additional references) | |
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"Insolence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: insolance, insolen, insolens, insuesco, Nicolene, Nikolenka, unsilenced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "insolence" (pronounced i"nsuluns) |
| 6 | -s u l u n s | excellence. |
| 5 | -u l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, benevolence, equivalence, nonviolence, opulence, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, turbulence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 4 | -l u n s | balance, condolence, counterbalance, imbalance, parlance, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, unbalance, Valence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cineoles. | |
-2 letters: cineole, cineols, conines, enclose, incense, inclose, leonine, license, oleines, selenic, senecio, silence. | |
-3 letters: cineol, clines, clones, colies, colins, conies, conine, conins, cosine, eloins, enisle, enolic, ensile, eosine, icones, insole, leones, lesion, linens, nelson, nicols, nieces, nonces, oleine, oleins, online, oscine, senile. | |
-4 letters: ceils, cense, cines, cions, cline, clone, clons, close, coils, coins. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: declension, indolences, insolences. | |
+2 letters: condensible, declensions, ensorceling, geosyncline. | |
+3 letters: conventicles, crenelations, declensional, ensorcelling, enucleations, geosynclines, insolvencies, intolerances, nickelodeons, nonelections, nonelectives, nonelectrics, nonexclusive, nonfluencies, nonselective, nonviolences. | |
+4 letters: antielectrons, consequential, containerless, conventiclers, crenellations, diencephalons, eugeosyncline, genuflections, housecleaning, inclinometers, incontestable, inflorescence, intellections, noninfluences, selenocentric. | |
+5 letters: bioluminescent, clownishnesses, colonialnesses, commonsensible, conclusiveness, congenialities, conscienceless, convertiplanes, convulsiveness, disconnectedly, discontentedly, eugeosynclinal, eugeosynclines, housecleanings, incompleteness, inconsequently, inconsiderable, inflorescences, intercessional, intersectional, ironicalnesses, licentiousness, magniloquences, noncelebrities, nonclandestine, nonelectronics, nonspeculative, nucleoproteins, reconcilements, unsociableness. | |
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