What's the difference between chastity and pudicity?

Chastity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
  • (n.) Moral purity.
  • (n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
  • (n.) Chasteness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.
  • (2) The organisation has been a persistent and virulent opponent of abortion rights and LGBT legal rights; it actively opposed safer sex campaigns at the height of the Aids crisis, advocating chastity as an alternative.
  • (3) Diana is a burrnesha , one of Albania's last sworn virgins , women who opted to live as men to escape the domination of a patriarchal system, at the cost of taking a vow of virginity and chastity.
  • (4) 5 The Ring Writer Trey Parker forays into teen chastity; it weaves in a foul-mouthed, sadistic Mickey Mouse.
  • (5) They take vows of poverty and chastity, but they are not ordained, which is why they have no power," said Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns .
  • (6) Clean break England's new skipper's line on chastity: 2007 – Rio denies organising the £4k-per-head Man United Christmas party, which was set up, a club insider told the press, "for players only: strictly no wives or girlfriends.
  • (7) The area also placed a heavy emphasis on female chastity, said Ye Ziling, who has interviewed many survivors , possibly helping to ensure the women's vows were respected.
  • (8) Canine chastity belt In 1903, German Baroness Margarethe Johanne Christianne Marie von Heyden and her husband, anxious to maintain the purity of the pedigree of their dogs, designed a device to prevent "coition in the case of bitches and other female animals more particularly for the purpose of preventing cross-breeding".
  • (9) Child marriage is a tradition that is practised to preserve a girl's chastity, to strengthen ties between families and as a response to poverty.
  • (10) Members of religious orders take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
  • (11) The promise of marriage could be undone without dishonour by taking a vow of chastity.
  • (12) On the vow of chastity Religious men and women are prophets.
  • (13) In 2004, in the city of Neka, a 16-year-old girl, Atefah Rajabi Sahaaleh, who had been raped several times, was convicted and executed for "crimes against chastity" and "adultery".
  • (14) Commentators on Twitter suggested that the mayor’s next move would be to issue chastity belts or burqas.
  • (15) In a recent issue of Isis’s English language magazine, Dabiq , an article condemns the supposed perversion of the western way of life, stating that it has destroyed modesty and chastity, causing women to abandon motherhood, wifehood, femininity, and heterosexuality.
  • (16) And there is just as surely something psychological at the bottom of Polanski's fear of female privacy, his apparent inability to distinguish between a belt and a chastity belt.
  • (17) Others blame ineffectual laws, lax policing, India’s deep seated patriarchal system and outmoded religious beliefs that place the burden of chastity squarely on women’s shoulders.
  • (18) I was going to wear a chastity belt today as a symbol of sexual slavery but I don't want to use a gimmicky prop to represent a serious act of oppression against the female population of this island.
  • (19) 21.5% were aware of the implications of the Adolescent Family Life Act designed to promote premarital chastity.
  • (20) For her family, who believed like many Egyptians that the mutilation would safeguard her chastity, the day was cause for celebration.

Pudicity


Definition:

  • (n.) Modesty; chastity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The modified technique for transplanting one mammary gland of a lactating goat to the neck, with the mammary (pudic) artery and vein anastomosed to the carotid artery and jugular vein respectively, is described.
  • (2) The extrinsic pudic-epigastric artery and vein as well as the entire intramuscular arteriolar network was innervated by noradrenergic axons.
  • (3) The infusions were performed over a 3-d period directly into the extra pudic artery on both sides of the mammary gland, and samples were taken simultaneously of the downstream extra pudic arterial blood and also of subcutaneous abdominal venous blood.
  • (4) The importance of clamping the external pudic vein, when sampling mammary venous blood from the caudal superficial epigastric vein, is indicated.
  • (5) This response is triggered by the fastest afferents in the pudic nerve.
  • (6) On the day following operation, the urethral sphincter responds to stimulation of its intact motor nerve, the pudic nerve by reflex (R) and direct (M) responses analogous to those of the intact animal anaesthetized with chloralose.
  • (7) The urethral reflex activity, either spontaneous or triggered by stimulation of the pudic nerve, may be inhibited, i: to a moderate degree by passive bladder distension; ii: almost completely by activation of vesicomotor neurones which provoke the bladder contraction.
  • (8) The central arteriole of the cremaster muscle was found to be a distal segment of the external spermatic artery which branched from the pudic-epigastric artery that in turn arose from the common iliac artery.
  • (9) Blood flow probes were surgically placed around the right external pudic artery.
  • (10) Substances were injected into the external pudic artery after pretreatment with an alpha-adrenoceptor blocking agent (prazosin or phentolamine).
  • (11) The electromyographic response of the striated urethral sphincter has been evoked following stimulation of its motor nerve, the pudic nerve.
  • (12) Lactating goats were infused with either technetium-99m (99mTc) or iodine-123 (123I) together with chlorine-36 (36Cl) through an indwelling catheter previously placed in an external pudic mammary artery.
  • (13) Topical application of adenosine (1 X 10(-3) M) significantly dilated the pudic-epigastric artery and the external spermatic artery, indicating that these vessels had significant tone.
  • (14) No vasoactive intestinal peptide immunoreactivity (VIP-IR) was found, except for occasional VIP-IR axons associated with the pudic-epigastric artery.
  • (15) 125I-labeled insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) was infused directly into the pudic artery supplying one gland of lactating goats (n = 4).
  • (16) 125I-Labelled insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) was infused as the free form directly into the pudic artery supplying one gland of lactating goats (n = 6).

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