Arrogance in a royal address passed over (4-10)

I believe the answer is:

high-handedness

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'arrogance' is the definition.
(I know that arrogance can be written as high-handedness)

'in a royal address passed over' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'a royal address' becomes 'highness' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'passed over' becomes 'handed' (as in passing or handing something to someone).
'highness' going around 'handed' is 'HIGH-HANDEDNESS'.

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