'pudicity' in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov | Bookmarker

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Pudicity is a noun that means modesty or chastity. It comes from the Latin word pudicitia, which comes from pudicus meaning "modest".

for we authors in exile are supposed to possess a lofty pudicity of expression

—p.137 A LETTER THAT NEVER REACHED RUSSIA (137) by Vladimir Nabokov

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