1670年代,“冒犯精緻的得體感,超出適當保留的範圍”,來自 in-(1)“不,相反的”+ delicate。相關: Indelicately。
Immorality and indelicacy are different things. Rabelais is indelicate to the last degree, but he is not really immoral. Congreve is far less indelicate, but far more immoral. [James Hadley, "Essays Philological and Critical," 1873]
不道德和不得體是不同的。拉伯萊是極其 indelicate 的,但他並不真正不道德。康格里夫的 indelicate 要少得多,但更加不道德。[詹姆斯·哈德利,“語言學和批判性論文”,1873年]
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