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indecorousness
(see prec.)
[f. prec. + -ness.]
†1. Inappropriateness. Obs.
1680H. Dodwell Disc. Sanchoniatho's Phœnician Hist. (1691) 102 The indecorousness of their Allegories to their Deities.
2. The quality of being indecorous; violation of propriety or decorum.
1762Sterne Let. to Garrick, Crebillon..has agreed to write to me an expostulatory letter on the indecorousness of ‘Tristram Shandy’. 1811Ann. Reg. Chron. 108 He never fails to dwell with censurable indecorousness on the illness of our venerable Sovereign. 1842Dickens Lett. (ed. 2) I. 62, I have seen none of that greediness and indecorousness on which travellers have laid so much emphasis. |