insultment

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English

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Etymology

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From insult +‎ -ment?

Noun

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insultment (usually uncountable, plural insultments)

  1. (obsolete) Insolent treatment; insult.
    • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
      He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, —which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, —to the court I’'ll knock her back, foot her home again.