单词 | impudicity |
释义 | impudicityn. a. Shamelessness, immodesty. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > immodesty or indelicacy impudencec1386 impudicity1528 petulancy1537 impudency1548 petulancea1600 unmodesty1599 immodesty1609 1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 279 With thare prouocatyue Impudicitie, Brocht mony ane man to Infelicitie. 1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 416 I bred thee chaste, and thou arte imbrued with impudicitie. 1662 P. du Moulin tr. Novelty of Popery vii. viii. 656 The luxury..,the impudicity, the gluttony..that reigned in the Papal Court. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 55/2 This impudicity..seems to have always been a characteristic of the Italian race. 1883 Beecher in Christian World Pulpit XXIII. 372/3 Knowledge with women in Grecian days was a token of impudicity. b. with an and plural. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > immodesty or indelicacy > instance of impudicity1582 impudency1628 1582 Bible (Rheims) Mark vii. 22 Theftes, auarices, wickednesse, guile, impudicities. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1528 |
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