insolence

Etymology

From Middle French insolence, from Latin īnsolentia.

noun

1. Arrogant conduct; insulting, bold behaviour or attitude.
   They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence. c. 1908–52, W.D. Ross, transl., The Works of Aristotle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Rhetoric, II.1389b11, by Aristotle, →OCLC, page 636
2. 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. 1652, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, and the Profane State, page 442
3. (obsolete) The quality of being unusual or novel.

verb

1. (obsolete) To 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 1851, Church Wardens of Burlington, “The Church Wardens &c. of Burlington to the Honourable Society. Burlington, 28th, 1715”, in Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society, volume 1, →OCLC, page 76
   bishops, who were first foully insolenced and assaulted. 1648, attributed to Charles I of England, Εἰκὼν Βασιλική [Eikōn Basilikē = Royal Portrait]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie, in His Solitvdes and Svfferings