inverecund
English
WOTD – 4 August 2011
Etymology
From Latin inverecundus, from in- + verecundus (“modest”), from vereri (“to revere”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛɹɪkʌnd/
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Adjective
inverecund (comparative more inverecund, superlative most inverecund)
- (rare, archaic) Immodest; shameless.
- 1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato:
- Only in puerice do we possess the inverecund innocence of our primaeval progenitors.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 366:
- […] if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs […]
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