Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Modesty; chastity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Modesty; chastity.
Etymologies
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Examples
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French fashion; in the spring, of the Spanish; in summer, of the fashion of Tuscany, except only upon the holy days and Sundays, at which times they were accoutred in the French mode, because they accounted it more honourable and better befitting the garb of a matronal pudicity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Graces, for the like reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Graces, for the like reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Not, quoth he, that I do mistrust her virtue, or that I seem to have any diffidence of her pudicity and chaste behaviour, — for of that I have frequently had good and real proofs, — but I must freely tell you, She is a woman.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Not, quoth he, that I do mistrust her virtue, or that I seem to have any diffidence of her pudicity and chaste behaviour, — for of that I have frequently had good and real proofs, — but I must freely tell you, She is a woman.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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French fashion; in the spring, of the Spanish; in summer, of the fashion of Tuscany, except only upon the holy days and Sundays, at which times they were accoutred in the French mode, because they accounted it more honourable and better befitting the garb of a matronal pudicity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It was even so with Hawkes, as he looked at the little Irish girl, born of an aristocratic English mother, looking up at him, hand outstretched, expectant, in all her girlish pudicity.
Peg O' My Heart J. Hartley Manners 1899
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School, but was soon busily employed on his own account in supplying the jewellers 'shops with miniature paintings on ivory; pretty heads and fancy subjects or mythological scenes to be framed with gold or set with diamonds; the beau of the day was incomplete without a costly snuff-box adorned with a lid, the prettiness of which, perhaps, somewhat surpassed its pudicity.
Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856
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Finally, the eyes are ordered to wander indiscriminately, and with all pudicity, over the whole flock, and never to be fixed upon a pretty lamb.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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But the pudicity of his behaviour and language covers a soul tremulous with emotion, whose passion was intensified by the discipline of a chaste intention.
Milton Mark Pattison 1848
yarb commented on the word pudicity
"you cannot demand pudicity on the part of a delphinet!"
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 5, 2008
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word pudicity
Pu*dic"i*ty\, n. Cf. F. pudicit['e, L. pudicitia.] Modesty; chastity. --Howell.
August 31, 2009