impertinently

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English impertinent

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English impertinently

From impertinent + -ly.

Adverb

impertinently (comparative more impertinently, superlative most impertinently)

1. In an impertinent manner.
   • a. 1653 (date written), Inigo Jones, The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly Called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain. […], London: […] James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman […], and Laurence Chapman […], published 1655, →OCLC, page 96:

     'Tis true, if Mythologie, and not demonſtrative reaſons vvere to be fixt upon in matters of Architecture, the former conceptions might be ſome ground to frame conjectures Stoneheng ſacred to Pan. But, Architecture depending upon demonſtration, not fancy, the fictions of Mythologiſts are no further to be embraced, then as not impertinently conducing to prove reall truths.

   • 1854, Grace Greenwood [pseudonym; Sara Jane Lippincott], chapter III, in Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 54:

     […] his royal highness the great camelopard, as he stood stretching his interminable neck over the railing, impertinently watching them in their recreation.

Translations

in an impertinent manner

• Catalan: impertinentment (ca)
• Czech: nestydatě, drze (cs)
• Polish: impertynencko (pl)
• Russian: дерзко (ru) (derzko), нахально (ru) (naxalʹno), на́гло (ru) (náglo)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “impertinently”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “impertinently”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.