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
“Keeping an editor in pay” was a standing sarcasm applicable to more than one of our generals; and the “army correspondent,” taking advantage of this pruriency for fame, lived well, and swaggered in proportional importance.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
It is the expression of our essential immorality—using that word in its conventional sense—having its roots deep down in pruriency, hypocrisy and ignorance.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Goldman, Emma
And he is safeguarded against a certain pruriency that comes from wrongly stimulated and vilely fed curiosity.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Morley, Margaret Warner
He must somehow make his novel interesting to his readers, just as a man is expected to make himself interesting in social conversation, without recourse to pruriency or obscenity.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
