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Chastity vs Pudicity - What's the difference?

chastity | pudicity |

As a proper noun chastity

is (rare) from the virtue chastity.

As a noun pudicity is

modesty; chastity.

chastity

English

(chastity)

Noun

(chastities)
  • The state of abstaining from sexual intercourse before or outside of marriage; avoidance of sexual sins; the quality of being chaste; moral purity.

    • See also

    * asexuality

    Antonyms

    * inchastity, unchastity * lust * promiscuity

    Derived terms

    * chastity belt

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    pudicity

    English

    Noun

    (pudicities)
  • Modesty; chastity.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.5:
  • *:There are effects, which without impuritie may lose them their pudicitie ; and which is more, without their knowledge.
  • *1925 , (Vladimir Nabokov), ‘A Letter That Never Reached Russia’:
  • *:for we authors in exile are supposed to possess a lofty pudicity of expression [...].
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 29:
    • I had always suspected him of being in love with Sylvie, but he was a man of great pudicity ; when it was once a case of doing a mild psychotherapy on her he passed her over to someone else in order, I thought, not to prejudice his doctor's control: or was it because he did not wish to feel the jealousy caused by his probings?

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