pudent

adj

pudent

adj

1

Rare Exhibiting pudency; modest.

[…] pudent in the presence of others, so must he be pudent when alone. It was said that, "Pudency and faith are interdependent, and either cannot be complete without the other."1901, Ibn Gabirol, Stephen Samuel Wise, The Improvement of the Moral Qualities, page 64:

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