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pudency

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Modesty.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 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.

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History

Etymology

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