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
Here is something to tell them that does not excite pruriency, that does set the full state of the case before them and represents probably all that can be said with assurance and safety.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
Like a wild Bacchante, she led her chorus of bold spirits through the formal ways of French society, which in her view were bristling with pruriency and veiled with hypocrisy.
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe
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 Richard B. Westbrook
By its suggestion of horror it provoked that hunger for details which, in its acute stage, becomes pruriency.
From The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy by Anonymous
