pudicity

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She makes her preparations to be irresistibly fascinating to Adolphe Women possess a power of mimicking pudicity, a knowledge of secrets which might be those of a frightened dove, a particular register for singing, like Isabella, in the fourth act of Robert le Diable: "Grace pour toi!

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  1. Modesty; chastity. It sheweth much grauitie & also pudicitie, hiding euery member of the body which had not bin pleasant to behold. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 237.

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  • She makes her preparations to be irresistibly fascinating to Adolphe Women possess a power of mimicking pudicity, a knowledge of secrets which might be those of a frightened dove, a particular register for singing, like Isabella, in the fourth act of Robert le Diable: "Grace pour toi! —  Analytical Studies
  • Graces, for the like reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
  • It was even so with Hawkes, as he looked at the little Irish girl, born of an aristocratic English mother, looking up at him, hand outstretched, expectant, in all her girlish pudicity. —  Peg O' My Heart
  • The Muses upon the same consideration are esteemed perpetual maids: and the Graces, for the same reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity. —  Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
  • School, but was soon busily employed on his own account in supplying the jewellers 'shops with miniature paintings on ivory; pretty heads and fancy subjects or mythological scenes to be framed with gold or set with diamonds; the beau of the day was incomplete without a costly snuff-box adorned with a lid, the prettiness of which, perhaps, somewhat surpassed its pudicity. —  Art in England Notes and Studies
 

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  1. = French pudicité, from Latin pudicitia, modesty, chastity, from pudicus, bashful, modest: see pudic.
 

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