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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1586
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Im(m)odest, a. [e.m.E. (1570).] Immodest, indecorous, indecent. —1586 Gray Lett. & P. 91.
That noe imodest minester should be tollerated to preach, leste they might haue used some vndecent speach
