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Webster 1913 Edition
Impudency
Im′pu-den-cy
,Noun.
Impudence.
[Obs.]
Burton.
Audacious without
impudency
. Shakespeare
More than
impudent
sauciness. Shakespeare
When we behold an angel, not to fear
Is to be
Is to be
impudent
. Dryden.
2.
Lacking modesty; shameless.
[Obs.]
Syn. – Shameless; audacious; brazen; bold-faced; pert; immodest; rude; saucy; impertinent; insolent.
Definition 2024
impudency
impudency
English
Noun
impudency (plural impudencies)
- (now rare) Impudence.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.40:
- There is nothing I hate more than driving of bargaines: It is a meere commerce of dodging and impudencie.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.40: