单词 | pudeur |
释义 | pudeurn. A sense of shame or embarrassment; bashfulness, modesty, or reticence. Cf. pudor n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun] > sense of shame or decency shamec725 shamefastnessc1200 shamefulnessa1340 shameness1340 pudicity1567 pudencya1616 pudor1623 forehead1631 sense of shame1647 pudeur1876 society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > [noun] pudicity1567 pudor1623 modesty1632 decency1639 delicacy1712 propriety1753 properness1873 pudeur1876 1876 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 221 Our irrepressible old friend Petitio Principii;..so perfectly naked as to have brought ingenuous blushes into the seasoned countenance of the Westminster Review itself; whose pudeur no one ever had occasion to suspect before. 1919 W. Lewis Caliph's Design Author's Pref. 6 Architecture—for which I have substituted Design, from a feeling of comprehensible pudeur, in referring to this unfortunate Entity. 1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xxi. 201 She had in any case, with a sort of pudeur, arranged to be out of London. 1976 Listener 10 June 737/3 It is hard not to be goaded into guessing identities. Pudeur makes the reader bend over backwards to prevent this happening. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xiv. 435 Their band,..the supposed shock troops of the new wave, fizzled in the face of American pudeur and ended up fatally shooting each other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876 |
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