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pudicity|pjuːˈdɪsɪtɪ|
[ad. F. pudicité (1417 in Godef.), substituted for OF. pudicicie (13–15th c.), ad. L. pudīcitia, f. pudīc-us: see pudic.]
Modesty, chastity.
1567Fenton Trag. Disc. i. (1898) I. 47 Absolute experience of her undoubted pudicitie. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1647) 10 They broke the lawes of all pudicity and honesty. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 109 Her pudicity awed me in the midst of transport. 1879M. Pattison Milton iii. 37 The pudicity of his behaviour and language covers a soul tremulous with emotion. 1931C. Mackenzie Buttercups & Daisies xxi. 274 Dodsworth in a turmoil of alarmed pudicity at the prospect of her bedroom being used as a thoroughfare called upon Ralph and Roger to stop their goings on at once. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar vi. 132 Yet it was accompanied by a delicacy, almost a pudicity, in his dealings with them. |