Definition of "insolency" [in•so•len•cy]

• Quality of being insolent. (noun)
• An act of insolence. (noun)

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• "But this ingratitude, vile as it is, I bore with patience till Badenoch, growing in insolency, declared that late last night despatches had arrived from the king of France to the regent, and that he (in right of his birth, assuming to himself that dignity) had put their bearer, Sir Alexander Ramsay, under confinement, for having persisted to dispute his authority to withhold them from you."
• "King's removal to Hurst Castle having meanwhile arrived, there was a fierce debate in the Commons over that act of the Army, the Presbyterians protesting against its "insolency," and at length carrying, by a majority of 136 votes to 102, a Resolution that it had been done "without the knowledge or consent" of the House."
• "To repress the luxury of those Roman matrons, there was [5031] Lex Valeria and Oppia, and a Cato to contradict; but no laws will serve to repress the pride and insolency of our days, the prodigious riot in this kind."