priggishness

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Priggishness was almost unknown among the Greeks—though one may suspect its presence among those Spartans who have told so few tales of themselves.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

She was very sympathetic, very tolerant, and although she had lived in the very Temple of Priggishness with her Brays and her Hennells and her Sibrees, she remained singularly simple and unaffected.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

Priggishness is the sin which doth most easily beset middle-class, and so-called educated Englishmen; we call it purity and culture, but it does not much matter what we call it. 

From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Butler, Samuel

Priggishness was even less endurable to Falkenhein than play and dancing.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

Priggishness is an artificial mental condition that is far more common than people generally suspect.

From The Curse of Education by Gorst, Harold Edward