arrogancie

English

Noun

arrogancie (countable and uncountable, plural arrogancies)

1. Obsolete spelling of arrogancy.
   • 1987 [1582], George Whetstone, edited by Diana Shklanka, An Heptameron of Civill Discourses, Garland Publishing, Inc., page 144:

     […] where vaine glorious Ixion Proclaymed, that he was the Minion of Juno, and had Acteoned Jupiter: for which arrogancie, Jupiter threw him to Hell, with this pictured vengeaunce.

   • 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?

   • 1650, John Brinsley the younger, An Antidote against the Poysonous Weeds of Heretical Blasphemies‎^[1], London: Ralph Smith, page 3:

     The third [vice] is Arrogancie, and the fourth Pride, two vices neer a kinne, Cosen germans […] when men shall arrogate much unto themselves; looking overly and superciliously upon others.