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Meaning of "pudency" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PUDENCY

From Late Latin pudentia, from Latin pudēre to feel shame.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PUDENCY

pudency  [ˈpjuːdənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUDENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pudency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PUDENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pudency

Modesty

Modesty is a mode of dress and deportment intended to avoid encouraging sexual attraction in others; actual standards vary widely. In this use, it can be considered inappropriate or immodest to reveal certain parts of the body. A modest woman would behave so as to avoid encouraging the sexual attention of men. In some societies women must cover their bodies completely and may never talk to men who are not immediate family members; in others a fairly revealing but one-piece bathing costume is considered modest when other women wear bikinis. In some countries, exposure of the body in breach of community standards of modesty is also considered to be public indecency, and public nudity is generally illegal in most of the world and regarded as indecent exposure. However, nudity is at times tolerated in some societies; for example, during a world naked bike ride, while a lone man attempting to walk naked from south to north Britain was repeatedly imprisoned. Small children are widely not expected to be fully clothed in public until they are grown up. In semi-public contexts standards of modesty vary.

Definition of pudency in the English dictionary

The definition of pudency in the dictionary is modesty, shame, or prudishness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUDENCY


accordancy
əˈkɔːdənsɪ
ardency
ˈɑːdənsɪ
ascendancy
əˈsɛndənsɪ
co-dependency
ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛndənsɪ
dependancy
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
dependency
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
despondency
dɪˈspɒndənsɪ
discordancy
dɪsˈkɔːdənsɪ
impudency
ˈɪmpjuːdənsɪ
independency
ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənsɪ
interdependency
ˌɪntədɪˈpɛndənsɪ
mordancy
ˈmɔːdənsɪ
pendency
ˈpɛndənsɪ
presidency
ˈprɛzɪdənsɪ
redundancy
rɪˈdʌndənsɪ
residency
ˈrɛzɪdənsɪ
superintendency
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
verdancy
ˈvɜːdənsɪ
vice-presidency
ˌvaɪsˈprɛzɪdənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUDENCY

pudding stone
pudding-face
pudding-head
puddingy
puddle
puddler
puddling
puddly
puddock
puddy
pudenda
pudendal
pudendous
pudendum
pudent
pudge
pudgier
pudgiest
pudgily
pudginess

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUDENCY

agency
ascendency
bearish tendency
cadency
central tendency
co-presidency
coincidency
confidency
correspondency
countertendency
decadency
high-dependency
impendency
Militant Tendency
precedency
resplendency
respondency
revolving presidency
Ross Dependency
subsidency
transcendency

Synonyms and antonyms of pudency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pudency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUDENCY

Find out the translation of pudency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pudency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pudency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pudency
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pudor
570 millions of speakers

English

pudency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शर्मीलापन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pudency
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стыдливость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pudor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লজ্জাশীলতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pudency
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pudency
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pudency
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pudency
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pudency
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pudency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tánh thẹn thùng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pudency
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुस्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mahçupluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pudency
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pudency
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

соромливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pudency
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αιδώς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rekords van
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pudency
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pudency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pudency

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUDENCY»

The term «pudency» is regularly used and occupies the 97.947 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUDENCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pudency» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pudency» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pudency

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUDENCY»

Discover the use of pudency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pudency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cymbeline: A Tragedy
Oh vengeance, ven-r geance ! Me os my lawsul pleasure she restrain'd, And pray 'd me, ost, sorbearance : ? did it with A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow: ...
William Shakespeare, Ambrose Eccles, 1794
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With ...
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 ; 6 that I thought her As chaste as unfunn'd snow: — O, all the devils! — This yellow ...
William Shakespeare, 1793
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus
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;6 that I thought her As chaste as unsunn'd snow : — O, all the devils!— This yellow  ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, 1801
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Hamlet; Cymbeline
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}9 that I thought her • was I know not where When I was stamp'd ; some coiner with ...
William Shakespeare, 1813
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Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol. I The Improvement ...
It was said that, " Pudency and faith are intc pendent, and either cannot be complete without the other/* poet said, " Keep guard over tin modesty: truly pudency mar the countenance of a nobleman," It is said that " Impudci and a lack of pudency ...
Stephen S. Wise, 1902
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Philosophic essays on the manners of various foreign animals ...
"w (All these conjectures, concerning shame or pudency, cannot have any real foun-'dation.) ' " ' How can it seriously be presumable, that the female Orang Outang exhibits fpontaneous acts of instinctive or reflective mo-., desty, when even, ...
‎1784
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Poems and Plays
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”; that I thought her See also, Rhodomont's invective against women, in the ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
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The improvement of the moral qualities: an ethical treatise ...
It was said that, " Pudency and faith are interdependent, and either cannot be complete without the other." A poet said, " Keep guard over thy modesty : truly pudency marks the countenance of a nobleman." It is said that "Impudence and a lack ...
Ibn Gabirol, Stephen Samuel Wise, Columbia University. Oriental Studies, 1901
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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
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 Saturn9; that I thought her See also, Rhodomont's invective against women, in the Orlando  ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
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The Anatomy of Bibliomania
Such pudency, perchance, is kin to that jealousy which Jacob will have is a symptom of bibliomania,' as well he may, for jealousy is generally morbid when it is not mad, and a well-known condition of erotomania. The library of le bibliomane ...
Holbrook Jackson, 1950

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUDENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pudency is used in the context of the following news items.
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Iranian Official: We Will Never Allow Inspections of Our Sites
This display without pudency of the total absence of knowledge is a bold... Posted by מנשה גולן on What Does Judaism Teach About Two Messiahs? 08:10. «Arutz Sheva, Jun 15»
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Short story by Samuel Beckett published for first time
He scatters words and phrases like “wombbud,” “clitoridian croon”, “total impubescence”, “piercing vagitus”, “rosy pudency”. Sexual slapstick is scattered as well. «Irish Times, Jul 14»
3
The Qur'an and law
... humbleness, patience, endurance, truth, pudency, cooperation, faithfulness, right of the neighbor, honoring the visitor, cleanliness and respect for the elderly, ... «GhanaWeb, Mar 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Pudency [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pudency>. Apr 2024 ».
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