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单词 pudeur
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pudeurn.

Brit. /pjuːˈdəː/, U.S. /pjuˈdər/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pudeur.
Etymology: < French pudeur sense of shame or embarrassment (1542 in Middle French with reference to matters of a personal nature, 1580 with reference to matters of a sexual nature) < classical Latin pudor pudor n.Compare the following earlier use of the French word in an English context:1870 S. H. Hodgson Theory of Pract. I. ii. 217 The French term pudeur seems exactly to express the feeling which is called out painfully or wounded by any lifting of the veil of the tacenda.
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).
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