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Insult

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(1):

(v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

(2):

(v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.

(3):

(v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

(4):

(v. i.) To leap or jump.

(5):

(v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.

(6):

(v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Insult'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​i/insult.html. 1828.
 
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