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Webster 1913 Edition


Undiscreet

Unˊdis-creet′

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Adj.
Indiscreet.
Chaucer.
Unˊdis-creet′ly
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adv.
– –
Unˊdis-creet′ness
.
Unˊdis-cre′tion
(#)
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Noun.
Indiscretion.

Definition 2024


undiscreet

undiscreet

English

Adjective

undiscreet (comparative more undiscreet, superlative most undiscreet)

  1. (obsolete) Indiscreet. [14th-17th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said, / Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet, / So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd […]?
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.ii:
      For these causes Plutarch [] gives a most especial charge to all parents, and many good cautions about bringing up of children, that they be not committed to undiscreet, passionate, bedlam tutors […].