pudeur
English
Etymology
From French pudeur, from Latin pudor. Doublet of pudor.
Pronunciation
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Noun
pudeur (countable and uncountable, plural pudeurs)
- A sense of modesty or reserve, especially as relating to sexual matters.
- 1861, Caroline Clive, chapter VII, in Why Paul Ferroll Killed His Wife, pages 137–8:
- Leslie felt confident enough of that also, but the pudeur of composition (when the author has written what he felt) made him shrink from so much talk about it.
- 1868, Paschal Beverly Randolph, chapter X, in After Death: Or, Disembodied Man, page 132:
- In preceding pages I have mooted a long-contested point of great importance, promising to recur it at a subsequent stage of this essay. I do so now because the pudeur of others has hitherto prevented its just discussion.
- 1994, Janet Lungstrum, edited by Peter J. Burgard, Nietzsche Writing Woman/Woman Writing Nietzsche: The Sexual Dialectic of Palingenesis, quoted in Nietzche and the Feminine, →ISBN, page 152:
- Nietzsche, the conquering Dionysus-creator, thus confesses to having the pudeurs of a blushing bride, or of his faking Weib, when she “gives herself.”
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pudor (“modesty, chastity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pudeur f (plural pudeurs)
- sense of modesty or reserve; shame
- Voltaire:
- La pudeur passe, et l'amour seul demeure.
- Voltaire:
- sense of decency, chastity, propriety
- 30 janvier 1901, Jules Renard, (journal):
- La rose a la couleur de la pudeur mais elle a aussi celle du mensonge.
- 30 janvier 1901, Jules Renard, (journal):
Antonyms
- (sense of modesty): impudeur
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Further reading
- “pudeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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