insultment

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noun

Insolent treatment; insult.

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Meanings

nouninsultment (usually uncountable, plural insultments)

plural insultments

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyInsolent treatment; insult.

    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.

    1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]

Origin

From insult + -ment?

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insultment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insultment

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“insultment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insultment. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insultment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insultment.

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