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pudicity

pudicity noun: modesty; chastity.

Noun

pudicity (countable and uncountable, plural pudicities)

  1. Modesty; chastity.
    • There are effects, which without impuritie may lose them their pudicitie; and which is more, without their knowledge.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.5
    • for we authors in exile are supposed to possess a lofty pudicity of expression [...].1925, Vladimir Nabokov, A Letter That Never Reached Russia

Forms of pudicity

pluralpudicities

Origin of pudicity

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

Questions about pudicity

What does pudicity mean?
Pudicity means modesty; chastity.
What part of speech is pudicity?
Pudicity is a noun.
What is the plural of pudicity?
The plural of pudicity is pudicities.

Words near pudicity in the dictionary

  1. pudic
  2. pudical
  3. pudically
  4. pudicitia
  5. pudicities
  6. pudicity
  7. pudina
  8. Puding
  9. pudique
  10. pudknocker
  11. pudknockers

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