arrogancy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin arrogāntia.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
arrogancy (countable and uncountable, plural arrogancies)
- (now rare) Arrogance.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Were it not a sottish arrogancie, that wee should thinke our selves to be the perfectest thing of this Universe?
References[edit]
- “arrogancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.