pudency

Now that death had replaced sex as the great unmentionable it had acquired its own pudency; to die when you had not yet become a nuisance and before your friends could reasonably raise the ritual chant of "happy release" was in the worst of taste.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Where combine with all her coyness her pride and pudency:

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

With the instinct of despair, she had buried herself deep in the hay, hiding her face in it to deaden those dreadful cries — pudency even stronger than grief.

The Message 2007

With the instinct of despair, she had buried herself deep in the hay, hiding her face in it to deaden those dreadful cries — pudency even stronger than grief.

The Message 2007

To prove his courage, he told her of his present way of life; Louise had known nothing of its hardships, for there is an indefinable pudency inseparable from strong feeling in youth, a delicacy which shrinks from a display of great qualities; and a young man loves to have the real quality of his nature discerned through the incognito.

Two Poets 2007

To prove his courage, he told her of his present way of life; Louise had known nothing of its hardships, for there is an indefinable pudency inseparable from strong feeling in youth, a delicacy which shrinks from a display of great qualities; and a young man loves to have the real quality of his nature discerned through the incognito.

Two Poets 2007

And from the form taken by such slanders as are circulated in our own sedate and moderate epoch may be conceived what might be said by political opponents in a fierce age that knew no pudency and no restraint.

The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912

And from the form taken by such slanders as are circulated in our own sedate and moderate epoch may be conceived what might be said by political opponents in a fierce age that knew no pudency and no restraint.

The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912

They have that whisper and waving of secresy in secret scenery; they beckon to the bath; and they conjure classic visions of the pudency of the Goddess irate or unsighted.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

Each had intended to pass a day and a night in this lonely dwelling-place by the lake, but a rival was less to be tolerated there than in love, and each awaited the other's departure, with an air that said: 'You are in my sunlight'; and going deeper, more sternly: 'Sir, you are an offence to Nature's pudency!'

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868