Passage in Bishop Butler

In Bishop Butler's sermon "Upon the Government of the Tongue" occurs the following passage: "There is in some such a disposition to be talking, that an offence of the slightest kind, and such as would not raise any other resentment, yet raises, if I may so speak, the resentment of the tongue, puts it into a flame, into the most ungovernable motions. *This outrage, when the person it respects is present, we distinguish in the lower rank of people by a peculiar term.*" Now I should be glad if any one could offer a conjecture as to the Bishop's meaning in this last sentence? I have shown it to se…