Word Meanings - INSULTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. Feltham. 2. Exultation. Is. xiv. .

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• INSULTING
  Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
• ABUSIVELY
  In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
• INSULTER
  One who insults. Shak.
• INSOLENT
  1. Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent.
• INSULTATION
  1. The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. Feltham. 2. Exultation. Is. xiv. .
• EXULTATION
  The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph. His bosom swelled with exultation. Prescott.
• ABUSIVE
  1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller. 2. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. "The abusive prerogatives of his
• INSULTABLE
  Capable of being insulted or affronted. Emerson.
• ABUSIVENESS
  The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.
• INABUSIVELY
  Without abuse.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• NAUHEIM TREATMENT; NAUHEIM BATH
  Orig., a method of therapeutic treatment administered, esp. for chronic diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany, by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid,
• ENTREATMENT
  Entreaty; invitation. Shak.
• MISTREATMENT
  Wrong treatment.