pudeur

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From French pudeur, from Latin pudor. Doublet of pudor.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pudeur (countable and uncountable, plural pudeurs)

  1. 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

[edit]

French

[edit]
French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Latin pudor (modesty, chastity).

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /py.dœʁ/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Noun

[edit]

pudeur f (plural pudeurs)

  1. sense of modesty or reserve; shame
    Antonym: impudeur
  2. 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.

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]