arrogance, tarrogancy

[In Fr. arrogance; Sp, & Port. arrogancia; Ital. arroganza; Lat. arrogant i a; from arrogans, pr. par. of arrogo.] [ARROGATE.] Properly, the act of taking to one's self in an insolent way that which one unjustly claims, or of helping one's self to that which, though one's own, should have been handed to one by another; the taking too much upon one's self; exorbitant pretensions, insolence. "The fear and hatred inspired by the greatne , the injustice, and the arrogance of the French king were at the height."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., chap. iv.