pruriency

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.”

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.

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.

The most minute directions are given touching the dress of the priests and the common people, in order to check the pruriency of fancy.

An idea of consummate originality is presented in a manner free from reproach or any suspicion of pruriency.