Pudicity

Origin

From Middle French pudicité, and its source, Latin pudicitia, from pudicus ("modest").

Full definition of pudicity

Noun

1. Modesty; chastity. from 16th c.
• 1925, Vladimir Nabokov, ‘A Letter That Never Reached Russia’:for we authors in exile are supposed to possess a lofty pudicity of expression ....
• 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 29: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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