inverecund

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WOTD – 4 August 2011    

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin inverecundus, from in- + verecundus (“modest”), from vereri (“to revere”).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ɪnˈvɛrɪkʌnd/

Adjective [edit]

inverecund (comparative more inverecund, superlative most inverecund)

  1. (rare, archaic) Immodest; shameless.
    • 1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato:
      Only in puerice do we possess the inverecund innocence of our primaeval progenitors.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs [...].

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