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Pudency

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Modesty. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain’d And pray’d me oft forbearance; did it with A pudency so rosy the sweet view on’t Might well have warm’d old Saturn […]"

Etymology

From Latin pudentia, from Latin pudet (“it shames”).

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