contumely

Anglais

Étymologie

De l’ancien français contumelie, issu du latin contumēlia  insulte »), peut-être constitué de tumeō (« gonfler ») avec le préfixe com-.

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contumely \ˈkɒntjuːməli\

  1. Outrage, affront, injure.
    • For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...].  (William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1594)
    • What scorn, what contumely, would be his!  (Grace Livingston Hill, The Best Man, 1914)
    • If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.  (James Strachey, traduction de Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, p. 178, 1953)
    • I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.  (Robert Nye, Falstaff, 1976)

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