Pudicity

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pudicity \Pu*dic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. pudicit['e], L. pudicitia.]
     Modesty; chastity. --Howell.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  PUDICITY. Chastity; the abstaining from all unlawful carnal commerce or 
  connexion. A married woman or a widow may defend her pudicity as a maid may 
  her virginity. Vide Chastity; Rape.