Meaning of pudicity | Babel Free

Definitions

Modesty; chastity.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“There are effects, which without impuritie may lose them their pudicitie; and which is more, without their knowledge.”

“for we authors in exile are supposed to possess a lofty pudicity of expression [...].”

“I had always suspected him of being in love with Sylvie, but he was a man of great pudicity; when it was once a case of doing a mild psychotherapy on her he passed her over to someone else in order, I thought, not to prejudice his doctor's control: or was it because he did not wish to feel the jealousy caused by his probings?”

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