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
And here it may be said that although there is a good deal of coarseness in the "Canterbury Tales," there is not the slightest tinge of pruriency.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
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 Train, Arthur Cheney
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
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.
