arrogancy

English

Etymology

From Latin arrogāntia.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈaɹəɡənsi/
Hyphenation: ar‧ro‧gan‧cy

Noun

arrogancy (countable and uncountable, plural arrogancies)

(now rare) Arrogance.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  Were it not a sottish arrogancie, that wee should thinke our selves to be the perfectest thing of this Universe?

References

arrogancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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