IM'PUDENCE, noun [Latin impudens; in and pudens, from pudeo, to be ashamed.] Shamelessness; want of modesty; effrontery; assurance accompanied with a disregard of the opinions of others. Those clear truths, that either their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes it impudence to deny.
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