impertinency
Americannoun
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impertinencies
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Etymology
Origin of impertinency
From the Medieval Latin word impertinentia, dating back to 1580–90. See impertinent, -ency
Example Sentences
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Thus, begging the Reader's excuse, for this seeming impertinency; I submit what I have written to the liberty of his unconfined opinion: which is all the favour I ask of others, to afford me.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
Here also are the Scottish Commissioners, who every day bring some new proposal to the King, full of impertinency.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
His great aim was to produce, not an extraordinary nor a complex work of art, but a flawless one; he wished to be all matter and no impertinency.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
O matter, and impertinency mixt, Reason in Madnesse Lear.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
In 1629 the origin of a seditious pamphlet, entitled, "How to bridle the impertinency of Parliaments," which was handed about in London, causing some commotion, was traced to the Cottonian library.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
Thus have I thought it enough to take a passing view of these objected instances, without marking narrowly all the impertinencies and falsehoods which here we find in the reasoning of our opposites.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
He would give grave advice to his Brother John, beare with his impertinencies, and say he was but a child!’
From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet
What buffoonery that Vulcan is not guilty of, while one with his polt-foot, another with his smutched muzzle, another with his impertinencies, he makes sport for the rest of the gods?
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
How many impertinencies, and roveries, and wanderings, are throughout the day?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Thus Sancho concluded his speech; and Don Quixote, who all the while dreaded he would have said a thousand impertinencies, was glad in his heart, finding him end with so few.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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