pruriency

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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 Walsh, James J.

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 Howe, Julia Ward

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.

“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