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Pudency
"Pudency" in a Sentence (4 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 […]
1780, Thomas Holcroft, Alwyn, London: Fielding & Walker, Volume I, Letter 4, p. 58, He has no respect to the timidity or pudency of youth or sex, but will say the most discouraging, as well as the rudest things, and receives pleasure in proportion to the pain he communicates.
Maidens laugh and weep; Composure Is the pudency of man.
The youthful artist working in any medium is prone to be impatient of the prejudices of Anglo-Saxon pudency.
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