Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vulgar corruption of impertinence.
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- noun colloquial
impertinence
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Examples
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She abandoned her first idea of rushing out and defending the cleanliness of her house by force of arms, but in place of that relieved herself in very strong language on the subject of Jack Smith generally, and of me in aiding and abetting him, and ended by announcing that she gave us both warning, and we might look-out for somebody else to stand our impudence (she called it "imperence"), for _she_ wouldn't.
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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HE must be thinking of falling in love too! and treating me to his imperence.
Burlesques 2006
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“Augustus, show this imperence to the door; and if he tries to come in again, call a policeman: do you hear?”
Mens Wives 2006
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HE must be thinking of falling in love too! and treating me to his imperence.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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Has for the butler, I always EBOMMINATED him for his precious snears and imperence to all us Gents who woar livry (he never would sit in our parlor, fasooth, nor drink out of our mugs); and in regard of Visp — why, it was ony the day before the wulgar beest hoffered to fite me, and thretnd to give me a good iding if I refused.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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Has for the butler, I always EBOMMINATED him for his precious snears and imperence to all us Gents who woar livry (he never would sit in our parlor, fasooth, nor drink out of our mugs); and in regard of Visp — why, it was ony the day before the wulgar beest hoffered to fite me, and thretnd to give me a good iding if I refused.
Burlesques 2006
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There was a man here yesterday with his imperence.
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BROWN, with his ushal raddicle imperence, says it's becoz they knos as it's for the larst time.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various
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'Well, upon my soul, the sorcy baggage,' burst out Elizabeth with unexpected wrath, 'such imperence after me workin' an 'plannin' the way
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"Don't come here with your imperence!" the cook said, but she was pleased with Dicky's unmeaning compliment all the same.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
Opus135 commented on the word imperence
Dickens has Mary use imperence of the bagman in Chapter XIV of Pickwick Papers.
May 17, 2016