arrogancy

English

Etymology

From Latin arrogāntia.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈaɹəɡənsi/
Hyphenation: ar‧ro‧gan‧cy

Noun

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

“arrogancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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