Properly educated, instructed, or brought up; displaying or characterized by good or modest behaviour.

Of a person, a person's conduct, etc.: respectable, decent, modest. Obsolete.

That has a sense of shame; modest, chaste. In later use chiefly spec.: designating an artistic representation of a nude figure, esp. Venus, with…

Having a sense of shame; modest, chaste. Cf. pudic, adj. 1.

Modest; sober or chaste in one's habits.

Of a woman: decorous in manner and conduct; not forward, impudent, or lewd; demure; (of a personal attribute, action, etc.) proper to or…

Originally: secret, hidden. In later use: that has a sense of shame; modest, seemly.

Having a refined sense of what is proper or appropriate; highly sensitive to feelings of embarrassment, shame, etc.; considerate of the feelings of…

Modest, bashful; prudish.

= sense 2.

of persons. spec. in modern colloquial use (see quot. 1949).