pudicity

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Modesty; chastity.

   “There are effects, which without impuritie may lose them their pudicitie; and which is more, without their knowledge.”

   “for we authors in exile are supposed to possess a lofty pudicity of expression [...].”

   “I had always suspected him of being in love with Sylvie, but he was a man of great pudicity; when it was once a case of doing a mild psychotherapy on her he passed her over to someone else in order, I thought, not to prejudice his doctor's control: or was it because he did not wish to feel the jealousy caused by his probings?”