Meaning of pudency | Babel Free

Definitions

Modesty.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

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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