pruriency
- a word derived from prurient.
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
An idea of consummate originality is presented in a manner free from reproach or any suspicion of pruriency.
From The Oyster by Peer
She has here pursued the analysis of character as an end in itself, for in "The Fatal Secret" there is no hint of disguised scandal, nor any appeal to the pruriency of degenerate readers.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie
There is none of that veiled pruriency which lurks underneath the more conventionally expressed, but really vicious sentiments that are to be found in too many novels of our own day.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard
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.
