pudor
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Without pudor malus or over-diffidence I would claim to have fulfilled the promise contained in my Foreword.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Article XI of the code: Non decet amare quarum pudor est nuptias affectare,—It is not seemly to love one whom it would not be seemly to marry, is one of the pivots of modern ethics.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
The pudor britannicus, however, is responsible for uncovering the one I am going to tell you of.
From Septimus by William John Locke
But now there is no "pudor" in the matter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
I never look at him but these lines from Horace come to my mind—'Quam desederio sit pudor aut modus tam cari capitis'!
From Calvert of Strathore by Carter Goodloe
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