Where does malapertness come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

malapertness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Obsolete; Uncountable

"if once it be possessed with the boldnesse to despise, and malapertnesse to impugne the opinions which tofore it held in awfull reverence […], they will soone and easily admit an equall uncertainty in all other parts of their beleefe […]."

From Middle English malepertnesse; equivalent to malapert + -ness.

malepertness (alternative)

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