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
He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Similar passages, especially a censure of the pruriency of Fourierism, occur in essays which were probably written some years earlier, but were not published until after his death.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
During the present New York theatrical season several plays have been already censored by the authorities, and either been taken off entirely or so altered as to be still within the bounds of legal pruriency.
From The "Goldfish" by Arthur Cheney Train
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 Bayard Tuckerman
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