单词 | pudency |
释义 | pudency|ˈpjuːdənsɪ| [ad. late L. pudēntia, f. pudēns, -ēntem, pr. pple. of pud-ēre to make or be ashamed: see -ency.] Susceptibility to the feeling of shame; modesty, bashfulness.
1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. v. 11 She..did it with A pudencie so Rosie..That I thought her As chaste, as vn-Sunn'd Snow. 1794C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 4 Where Hypocrisy too often puts on the mask of pudency. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Consid. Wks. (Bohn) II. 425 There is a pudency about friendship, as about love. 1902Gildersleeve in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. XXIII. 135 Unless we are taught to observe, we do not notice the pudencies of Homer. |

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