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Definition of Impudence

1. Noun. An impudent statement.

2. Noun. The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.

Definition of Impudence

1. n. The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty.

Definition of Impudence

1. Noun. The quality of being impudent, not showing due respect. ¹

2. Noun. Impudent language, conduct or behavior. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Impudence

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impudence

improvizes improvizing improvs improvvisatore improvvisatrice improvvisatrici imprudence imprudences imprudent imprudently

impræscriptible imps imps. impuberal impuberty impudence (current term) impudences impudencies impudency impudent

impudently impudicities impudicity impugn impugnable impugnation impugnations impugned impugner impugners

Literary usage of Impudence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects by David Hume (1758)
"But when he endeavours at impudence, if he ever failed in the attempt, ... 'till he be found out to be аи arrant cheat, and a vain pretender to impudence. ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1834)
"Struck with his impudence, I said, " I might, sir, tell you that I could not do it—but I ... I have heard, but once, of more bare-faced impudence than this. ..."

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"In love these vices are ; suspicions, Peace, war, and impudence, detractions, Dreams, cares, and errors, terrors and affrights, Immodest pranks, devices, ..."

4. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"In love these vices are ; suspicions, Peace, war, and impudence, detractions, Dreams, cares, and errors, terrors and affrights, Immodest pranks, devices, ..."

5. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"I have put myself to great pains in considering this prevailing quality, which we call impudence, and have taken notice that it exerts itself in a different ..."

6. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"According to Plutarch, the " river-horse " was the emblem of "impudence."t This he endeavours to show by a hieroglyphic sentence in the porch of the temple ..."

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