Impudicity

Quick meaning: Impudicity is a noun meaning (formal) Immodesty; shamelessness.

Meaning

(formal) Immodesty; shamelessness.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• impudicities

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shamelessness, impudency, pudicity, pudency, immodesty, modesty.

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