insultment

English

Etymology

insult +‎ -ment?

Noun

insultment (usually uncountable, plural insultments)

1. (obsolete) Insolent treatment; insult.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, —which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, —to the court I’'ll knock her back, foot her home again.