impertinency

[ im-pur-tn-uhn-see ]

noun

, plural im·per·ti·nen·cies.

1. impertinence.

Word History and Origins

Origin of impertinency¹

From the Medieval Latin word impertinentia, dating back to 1580–90. See impertinent, -ency

Example Sentences

Here also are the Scottish Commissioners, who every day bring some new proposal to the King, full of impertinency.

From Project Gutenberg

The devil himself hath laid hold on our young men, so that they do evaporate senseless, useless, noisy impertinency wherever they may be; and now it has e'en got out in the pulpits of the land, to the great grief and fear of many godly hearts.

From Project Gutenberg

Moreover, to say that Aristotle is to be understood of the Needle demitted with the Point downwards, is to father upon him a great impertinency; for in this place he saith, that little Particles of Lead or Iron, if they be round or long as a Needle, do sink to the bottome; so that by his Opinion, a Particle or small Grain of Iron cannot swim: and if he thus believed, what a great folly would it be to subjoyn, that neither would a Needle demitted endwayes swim?

From Project Gutenberg

And whereas it is said, that as a woman's father or husband might disannul her vow, and so the magistrate might abrogate the covenant: besides the impertinency of this comparison, as might be easy to demonstrate, it may be, by giving and not granting that he might do so; yet if the father and husband shall hold their peace, then all her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand, ver. iv.

From Project Gutenberg

It happened that among the many rare manuscripts collected by Sir Robert Cotton, one reached his hands, which struck him by the singularity of the subject; it was a political theory to show the kings of England “how to bridle the impertinency of Parliaments.”

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