Meanings
plural impudicities
- countableformaluncountableImmodesty; shamelessness.
1 more example
It muſt be obſerved that though a man is allowed by the Mohammedan, as by the Jewish law, to repudiate his wife even on the ſlightest diſguſt, yet the women are not allowed to ſeparate themſelves from their huſbands, unleſs it be for ill uſage, want of proper maintenance, neglect of conjugal duty, impotency, or ſome cauſe of equal import; but then ſhe generally loſes her dowry, which ſhe does not, if divorced by her huſband, unleſs she has been guilty of impudicity or notorious diſobedience.
1734, “The Preliminary Discourse”, in George Sale, transl., The Koran, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English Immediately from the Original Arabic; […], London: […] C. Ackers […], for J. Wilcox […], →OCLC, section, page 134
Origin
- Latinimpudicus“shameless, immodest”
- Middle Frenchimpudicité
- Englishimpudicity
From Middle French impudicité, from Latin impudicus (“shameless, immodest”) + Middle French -ité. By surface analysis, im- + pudic + -ity.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan impudícia, impudicícia
- impudícialack of modesty or shame
- impudicícialack of modesty or shame
- impudicitatlack of modesty or shame
Dutch schaamteloosheid
- schaamteloosheidlack of modesty or shame
French impudicité
- impudicitélack of modesty or shame
Italian impudicizia
- impudicizialack of modesty or shame
Portuguese impudicícia
- impudicícialack of modesty or shame
Spanish impudicia, impudicicia
- impudicialack of modesty or shame
- impudicicialack of modesty or shame
- impudorlack of modesty or shame
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