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English
Etymology
From insult + -ment?
Noun
insultment (usually uncountable, plural insultments)
- (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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.