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单词 pudency
释义

pudency

English

Etymology

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

Noun

pudency (countable and uncountable, plural pudencies)

  1. (obsolete) Modesty.
    • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:
      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 []
    • 1780, Thomas Holcroft, Alwyn, London: Fielding & Walker, Volume I, Letter 4, p. 58,
      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.
    • 1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet” in Poems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 302,
      Maidens laugh and weep; Composure
      Is the pudency of man.
    • 1906, Elizabeth Bisland, The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Volume I, Chapter 2, p. 62,
      The youthful artist working in any medium is prone to be impatient of the prejudices of Anglo-Saxon pudency.
  • impudence
  • pudic
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