“undecency”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

undecency

释义

unˈdecency Now Obs. or rare.
[un-¹ 12 and 5 b: cf. undecent a.]
= indecency 1.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. (Arb.) 271 Diuers points, in which the wise and learned men of times past haue noted much decency or vndecencie.1656Clarke Papers (Camden) III. 75 Upon a motion against blackpatches used by women on their faces, all undecency in apparrell was also moved again.1692South Serm. (1697) I. 482 From this springs the Notion of Decency or Undecency; that which becomes or mis-becomes.
b. = indecency 1 b.
1624Gataker Transubst. 189 It should be subject to many undecencies, as corruption, putrefaction, mice-eating.1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. Introd. 5 A disproportionate instrument is an undecency, and makes the effect impossible.a1716South Serm. (1744) VII. 30 Every vacuity is (as it were) the hunger of the creation, both an undecency, and a torment.

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