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indecorum|ɪndɪˈkɔərəm|
[a. L. indecōrum, subst. use of neut. sing. of indecōrus indecorous; cf. decorum.]
1. An indecorous or unbecoming action or proceeding; an impropriety, a violation of the rules of behaviour proper to the sex, age, or character of the actor.
1575Gascoigne Instr. Eng. Verse (Arb.) 32 To entermingle merie iests in a serious matter is an Indecorum. 1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 91 If any Decorum be omitted, or Indecorum committed, I can not otherwise excuse it. 1659Gentl. Calling vi. xiii. 433 They will not be guilty of such an Indecorum. 1709Steele Tatler No. 109 ⁋1 It may be thought an Indecorum that I visit a Man. 1828Carlyle Werner in Misc. Ess. (1888) I. 74 It was a much coarser curiosity..which the dissipated man, by successive indecorums occasioned. 1849Grote Greece ii. lv. (1862) V. 52 This was a flagrant indecorum, and known violation of the order of the festival.
2. The quality of being indecorous; lack of decorum; impropriety, now esp. of behaviour.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. Apol. 542 It is little detriment or Indecorum for them to use so well a limited indulgence. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 60 Upon a bare Moral account of the indecorum, unreasonableness, unseasonableness or utter unfitness of the thing it self. 1742Jarvis Quix. ii. ii. xxii. (1885) 88 A woman suffers more..by public indecorum than by secret wantonness. 1771Burke Corr. (1844) I. 324 The charge is not..for indecorum, or in⁓discretion, but for falsehood. 1823Scott Quentin D. xvi, The adroit manner in which he apologized for the acts of indecorum committed by their attendant.
†b. Inelegance, unhandsomeness. Obs. rare.
1597A. M. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 47/2 The patient might be mutilate, and without greate indecorum or deformity, should not be able to goe. |