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单词 pudibundery
释义

pudibunderyn.

Brit. /ˌpjuːdᵻˈbʌnd(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌpjudəˈbənd(ə)ri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: pudibund adj., -ery suffix.
Etymology: < pudibund adj. + -ery suffix, after French pudibonderie (1842).
rare.
Prudery.
ΚΠ
1910 ‘A. Crowley’ World's Tragedy Pref. p. xxiv English pudibundery being the main strong hold of the Puritan, I now concentrate my guns on that position.
a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) xxii. 249 The pudibundery of Erastian peeping toms.
1917 E. Pound Let. ?Jan. (1971) 107 I have only three quarrels with them: Their idiotic fuss over christianizing all poems they print, their concessions to local pudibundery, [etc.].
1922 E. Pound tr. R. de Gourmont Nat. Philos. Love i. 12 Darwin, truckling to the religiose pudibundery of his race, has almost wholly neglected the actual facts of sex.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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