propudious

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adjective

shameful, infamous, disgraceful

OriginLatin prōpudiōsus →
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Meanings

adjectivepropudious (comparative more propudious, superlative most propudious)

comparative more propudious · superlative most propudious

  1. obsoleteshameful, infamous, disgraceful

    Nothing more usual amongst them, (as he there observes,) than to hang their rooms with the pictures of their gods drawn in the most lascivious and propudious postures, engaged in the most filthy and dishonest actions, enough to shame intemperance itself.

    1676, William Cave, Primitive Christianity: or, The religion of the ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel

Origin

  1. Latinprōpudiōsus“shameful, disgraceful, infamous”
  2. Englishpropudious

From Latin prōpudiōsus (“shameful, disgraceful, infamous”), from propudium (“scandal, shameful act; shameful person, wretch”) + -ōsus (“-ose: full of, prone to”), from prō- (“for, to, towards”) + pudēre (“to be ashamed, to cause shame”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

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Chicago

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