Pudency
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"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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