pudency

pudency
/pyoohd"n see/, n.
modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness.
[1605-15; < LL pudentia shame, equiv. to L pudent- (s. of pudens, prp. of pudere to be ashamed) + -ia -Y3; see -ENCY]

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