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English
Etymology
From Middle French pudicité, and its source, Latin pudicitia, from pudicus (“modest”).
Noun
pudicity (countable and uncountable, plural pudicities)
- Modesty; chastity.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.5:There are effects, which without impuritie may lose them their pudicitie; and which is more, without their knowledge.
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, published 1992, page 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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