propudious
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin prōpudiōsus (“shameful, disgraceful, infamous”), from propudium (“scandal, shameful act; shameful person, wretch”) + -ōsus (“-ose: full of, prone to”), from prō- (“for, to, towards”) + pudēre (“to be ashamed, to cause shame”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”).
Adjective[edit]
propudious (comparative more propudious, superlative most propudious)
- (obsolete) shameful, infamous, disgraceful
- 1676, William Cave, Primitive Christianity: or, The religion of the ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel:
- Nothing more usual amongst them, (as he there observes,)
than to hang their rooms with the pictures of their gods
drawn in the most lascivious and propudious postures,
engaged in the most filthy and dishonest actions,
enough to shame intemperance itself.
References[edit]
- “† propudious, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.
