impudency
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin impudēntia.
Noun
editimpudency (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.