inverecund

From Latin inverecundus, from in- + verecundus (“modest”), from vereri (“to revere”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛɹɪkʌnd/

inverecund (comparative more inverecund, superlative most inverecund)

1. (rare, archaic) Immodest; shameless.
   • 1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato:

     Only in puerice do we possess the inverecund innocence of our primaeval progenitors.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs [...].

• verecund