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immodesties

immodesties is the plural of immodesty.

Meaning of immodesty

Noun

immodesty (usually uncountable, plural immodesties)

  1. (usually) The state of being immodest; a lack of modesty.
  2. (euphemistic, usually) The genitals, privates.
    • No sooner were we seated in this place, but two Girls about twelve years old enter'd at the same Gate whereat we came in; they were all naked, (as, I said above, the Women generally go) saving that they had a very small blew cloth wrap'd about their immodesties [translating vergogne], and their...1665, Pietro Della Valle, “From Goa, January 31. 1624”, in George Havers, transl., The Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a Noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta, page 183

Questions about immodesties

What is immodesties the plural of?
Immodesties is the plural of immodesty.

Words near immodesties in the dictionary

  1. immoderately
  2. immoderateness
  3. immoderation
  4. immoderations
  5. immodest
  6. immodesties
  7. immodestly
  8. immodesty
  9. immodulated
  10. Immokalee
  11. immolate

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