priggism

American  

[prig-iz-uhm] / ˈprɪg ɪz əm /

noun

1. priggish character or ideas; priggishness.

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Etymology

Origin of priggism

First recorded in 1735–45; prig ¹ + -ism

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priggism

After some further conversation, the subjects being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, “I must now leave you”.

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by William Knapp

Let us at the same time separate ourselves farther from priggism itself.

From The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

After some farther conversation, the subjects p. 126being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, “I must now leave you.”

From Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Francis Hindes Groome

It is an attempt of the pedagogue to assert a jurisdiction over grown intellects, and hence such books naturally develop in flagrant exaggeration the pragmatical priggism which is the pedagogue's characteristic defect.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

After some further conversation, the subjects being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, “I must now leave you.”

From Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest by Theodore Watts

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