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Insolence is rude behaviour that shows no respect, especially from someone “below” toward someone “above” — a student to a teacher, a child to a parent, a worker to a boss. It is stronger than just being casual or informal: it has a flavour of “how dare you.” It is a rather old-fashioned, school-and-courtroom word; a friend today would more often say or attitude. The adjective is insolent. Though actually, it is not related to , the pad in a shoe — they only look alike. The Latin idea behind it is “not the usual / not accustomed,” which drifted into “too bold.”
無禮、傲慢無禮
組成From Middle French insolence, from Latin īnsolentia. Same family as insolent: Latin in- (not) + a piece from solēre (“to be accustomed”).
同家族的字
- insolentthe adjective
- insolentlythe adverb
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insolencenoun/ˈɪn.sə.ləns/
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Contemptible, ill-mannered conduct; insulting: arrogant, bold behaviour or attitude.
- all the insolence of imaginary superiority
- There she was, doing rude things, and saying ruder, which every body bore with the best grace in the world: then, as now, it was perfectly astonishing what people in general will submit to in the way of insolence, provided the said insolence be attended by rank and riches.
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Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
- Two heavy iron chains were put about his neck, (in metal and weight different from them he bore before!) and, loaded with fetters and insolences from the soldiers, (who in such ware seldom give scant measure,) he was brought into the presence of Isaacius.
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obsoleteThe quality of being unusual or novel.
- Her great excellence / Lifts me above the measure of my might / That being fild with furious insolence / I feele my selfe like one yrapt in spright.
insolenceverb/ˈɪn.sə.ləns/
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obsoleteTo insult.
- ...we are bound to assert that we never heard either in his public discourses or private conversation, anything that might tend towards encouraging sedition, or anyways insolencing the government
- bishops, who were first foully insolenced and assaulted.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。