Meanings
nounarrogancy (countable and uncountable, plural arrogancies)
plural arrogancies
- archaiccountableuncountableArrogance.
Were it not a sottish arrogancie, that wee should thinke our selves to be the perfectest thing of this Universe?
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinarrogāntia
- Englisharrogancy
From Latin arrogāntia.
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