Definition of "pudency"

pudency

noun
countable and uncountable, plural pudencies
1. (obsolete) Modesty.
  Quotations
  Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain’dAnd pray’d me oft forbearance; did it withA pudency so rosy the sweet view on’tMight well have warm’d old Saturn […]
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene v]
  He has no respect to the timidity or pudency of youth or sex, but will say the most discouraging, as well as the rudest things, and receives pleasure in proportion to the pain he communicates.
  1780, Thomas Holcroft, Alwyn, London: Fielding & Walker, Volume I, Letter 4, p. 58
  Maidens laugh and weep; ComposureIs the pudency of man.
  1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet”, in Poems‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 302
  The youthful artist working in any medium is prone to be impatient of the prejudices of Anglo-Saxon pudency.
  1906, Elizabeth Bisland, chapter 2, in The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn‎, volume I, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 62