pruriency
Example Sentences
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The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have just now been interrupted by one of my new neighbours, who has made himself absolutely contemptible in my eyes, by his silly garrulous pruriency.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Similar passages, especially a censure of the pruriency of Fourierism, occur in essays which were probably written some years earlier, but were not published until after his death.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May
An idea of consummate originality is presented in a manner free from reproach or any suspicion of pruriency.
From The Oyster by Peer
But it has been well said: “Prudery and pruriency are frequently companions, equally impure and cowardly; and in all scientific investigations they should be disregarded rather than conciliated.”
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
