All 4 Uses
insolent
in
Oedipus the King
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- OEDIPUS And who could stay his choler when he heard How insolently thou dost flout the State?†
*insolently = with rude disrespect
- OEDIPUS Must I endure this fellow's insolence?†
insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- 1) Of insolence is bred The tyrant; insolence full blown, With empty riches surfeited, Scales the precipitous height and grasps the throne.†
- 1) Of insolence is bred The tyrant; insolence full blown, With empty riches surfeited, Scales the precipitous height and grasps the throne.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(insolent) rudely disrespectful -- especially toward someone in authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)