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- noun An appropriate sense of
modesty orshame .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1347 the famous Joanna of Naples founded (æt. 23), in her town of Avignon, a bordel whose in-mates were to be medically inspected a measure to which England (proh pudor!) still objects.
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Gracias pudor turquesa embrujo vela, llamarada quietud azar delirio.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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Without pudor malus or over-diffidence I would claim to have fulfilled the promise contained in my Foreword.
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Ipse sibi persuadent, quod adulterium cum principe vel cum praesule, non est pudor nec peccatum.
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Another thing is, that out of bashfulness he do not conceal his grief; if aught trouble his mind, let him freely disclose it, Stultorum incurata pudor malus ulcera celat: by that means he procures to himself much mischief, and runs into a greater inconvenience: he must be willing to be cured, and earnestly desire it.
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[2688] Sometimes the extremity of the ears tingle, and are red, sometimes the whole face, Etsi nihil vitiosum commiseris, as Lodovicus holds: though Aristotle is of opinion, omnis pudor ex vitio commisso, all shame for some offence.
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Et tener affectum prodit utrique pudor, &c. Their faces answer, and by blushing say,
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Olysipponensis medicus; pudor aut juvat aut laedit.
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Nam quando mulieres cognoscunt maritum hoc advertere, licentius peccant, [6048] as Nevisanus holds, when a woman thinks her husband watcheth her, she will sooner offend; [6049] Liberius peccant, et pudor omnis abest, rough handling makes them worse: as the goodwife of Bath in Chaucer brags,
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Dear youth of ingenuous countenance and ingenuous pudor!
Roundabout Papers 2006
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