insultment
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]insultment (usually uncountable, plural insultments)
- (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.