impudency

English

Etymology

From Latin impudēntia.

Noun

impudency (plural impudencies)

(now rare) Impudence, insolence.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “That the taste of goods or evilles doth greatly depend on the opinion we have of them”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 134:
  There is nothing that I hate more then driving of bargains: It is a meere commerce of dodging and impudencie.

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