[ad. L. arrogāntia: see prec. and -ANCY.]
1. The quality or state of being arrogant.
1529. More, Supplic. Soules, Wks. 290/1. Proude arrogancie vnder ye name of supplicacion.
1538. Starkey, England, 112. A certayne arrogancy, wherby … every Jake wold be a gentylman.
1611. Bible, Prov. viii. 13. Pride and arrogancie, and the euill way … doe I hate.
1718. J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos. (1730), Pref. 19. Some Men are apt to advance such their Notions with great Arrogancy.
1856. F. E. Paget, Owlet of Owlst., 5. And I don’t wish to be arrogant myself, while preaching against arrogancy.
† 2. A piece of arrogance; an arrogant act or assumption. Obs.
1581. Nowell & Day, in Confer., I. (1584), F b. Yet were it an intollerable arrogancie for vs to say, We fed thee when thou wast hungry.
1649. Milton, Tenure of Kings, 10. The titles of Sovran Lord, naturall Lord, and the like, are either arrogancies, or flatteries.
