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Insultment

In-sult′ment

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Noun.
Insolent treatment; insult.
[Obs.]
“My speech of insultment ended.”
Shak.

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insultment

insultment

English

Noun

insultment (usually uncountable, plural insultments)

  1. (obsolete) Insolent treatment; insult.
    • 1611?, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (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.