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pudency

pudency noun: modesty.

Noun

pudency (countable and uncountable, plural pudencies)

  1. (archaic) Modesty.
    • 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 […]1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • 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.1780, Thomas Holcroft, Alwyn, London: Fielding & Walker, Volume I, Letter 4, p. 58

pudency meaning in Tamil and Urdu

pudency in Tamil

நாணம்

pudency in Urdu

غیرت, حیا, حجاب, شرم

Forms of pudency

pluralpudencies

Origin of pudency

From Latin pudentia, from Latin pudet (“it shames”).

Questions about pudency

What does pudency mean?
Pudency means modesty.
What is pudency in Tamil?
Pudency in Tamil is நாணம். See Pudency meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pudency?
Pudency is a noun.
What is the plural of pudency?
The plural of pudency is pudencies.

Words near pudency in the dictionary

  1. puddytat
  2. puddytats
  3. pudeena
  4. Pudelpointer
  5. pudencies
  6. pudency
  7. pudend
  8. pudend-
  9. pudenda
  10. pudenda muliebria
  11. pudenda virilia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pudency (page history and authors); pudency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pudency (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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