impudicity
(ɪmpjuːˈdɪsɪtɪ)
[a. F. impudicité, f. L. type *impudīcitās, for cl. L. impudīcitia, f. impudīc-us shameless.]
Shamelessness, immodesty.
| 1528 Lyndesay Dreme 279 With thare prouocatyue Impudicitie, Brocht mony ane man to Infelicitie. 1577 Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 416, I bred thee chaste, and thou arte imbrued with impudicitie. 1674 tr. Du Moulin's Papal Tyranny 38 The luxury..the impudicity, the gluttony..that reigned in the Papal Court. 1824 Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 55/2 This impudicity..seems to have always been a characteristic of the Italian race. 1883 Beecher in Chr. World Pulpit XXIII. 372/3 Knowledge with women in Grecian days was a token of impudicity. |
b. with an and pl.
| 1582 N. T. (Rhem.) Mark vii. 22 Theftes, auarices, wickednesse, guile, impudicities. |