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单词 pruriency
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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.” The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z
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. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z
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. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z
The most minute directions are given touching the dress of the priests and the common people, in order to check the pruriency of fancy. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z
An idea of consummate originality is presented in a manner free from reproach or any suspicion of pruriency. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z
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. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z
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. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
We would still follow our Scribe here, were it not that his pruriency often reaches the edge. The Book of Khalid
It is the expression of our essential immorality—using that word in its conventional sense—having its roots deep down in pruriency, hypocrisy and ignorance. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
And he is safeguarded against a certain pruriency that comes from wrongly stimulated and vilely fed curiosity. The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young
Charity is the most mischievous sort of pruriency. Maxims for Revolutionists
“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. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
We believe, however, that the pruriency of Orientals, like the prudery of Occidentals, is in fact only an appearance. The Book of Khalid
It has reared an awful idol to which have been sacrificed the best of our youth; with hypocrisy the high-priest, ignorance the creed, and pruriency the detective. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
But this aspect was far more marked in neo-Kṛishṇaism, which often tends to intense pruriency, than in the other two cults. Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India
A true situation, depicted boldly and frankly but without pruriency. 12mo. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
The suppression of the sex instinct not infrequently results in a morbid pruriency in matters of sex, a distortion of all other interests and activities by a preoccupation with the frustrated sex motive. Human Traits and their Social Significance
There never was an age in which pruriency in any guise could cease to be indecent. My Contemporaries In Fiction
He indulged in much pruriency of description, and occasional remarks savouring of infidelity. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
He was resolved to attract notice at any price—by putting on cap and bells, and by the pruriency which stains his best work. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
What a humbug is this sensualist, who masks his pruriency back of poetic and philosophical symbols. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
So-called reforms in this direction are made the excuse for pruriency in drama, in novels, in moving pictures and in other ways that are distinctly vicious in their effect. Ethics in Service
He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells. A Hero and Some Other Folks
Isolation is more likely to breed pruriency than commingling to provoke indulgence. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls
I have just now been interrupted by one of my new neighbours, who has made himself absolutely contemptible in my eyes, by his silly garrulous pruriency. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
To the honor of the service, the disease—pruriency of fame not earned—can not have seized upon half a dozen officers present, all of whom, it is believed, belonged to the same two coteries. General Scott
Thus was afforded to the appreciative reader a double satisfaction, physical and ethical, pruriency and piety. Success A Novel
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. A History of English Prose Fiction
However, he cannot avoid rubbing himself against this subject merely for the pleasure of stirring controversies, and gratifying a certain pruriency of taxation that seems to infect his blood. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
But a transition from long skirts to short tight ones, impeding movement, is the transition from prudery to pruriency and is by no means a clear gain. The Nervous Housewife
So imperfect is still the education of the multitude that in these matters the ill-bred fanatic of pruriency usually gains his will. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
F.'s plays are full of wit and sparkle and, though often coarse, have not the malignant pruriency of some of his predecessors. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
Antonyms: See undesigning. desire, n. longing, craving, will, aspiration, hankering, appetency, cupidity, impulse; request, petition, quest, entreaty; velleity; pruriency. Putnam's Word Book
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. The "Goldfish"
The only extenuating circumstance we can mention is, that his pruriency was latterly in part relinquished and much deplored by himself, and that his poetry is, on the whole, free from it. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
What lustfulness would surround them, what constant pruriency, what stealing!... Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
He had no claptrap, no great cause, none of the disease of pruriency which came into fashion with Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.  Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial
The authors who knew they were lying sank almost as low as the nasty-nice purveyors of fake idealism and candied pruriency who fancied they were writing the truth. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
I have just now been interrupted by one of my new neighbours, who has made himself absolutely contemptible in my eyes, by his silly, garrulous pruriency. The Letters of Robert Burns
By its suggestion of horror it provoked that hunger for details which, in its acute stage, becomes pruriency. The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
The question is complicated among ourselves because established traditions of rigid concealment have fostered a pruriency which is an offensive insult to naked modesty. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
His bodily senses grow acute, even to barren and inhuman pruriency; while his mental become proportionally obtuse. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
They expect incidents, and, finding none, they seek for pruriency. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
The immoral incidents, round which a veil of poetic sanctity had been cast by the great consecrator time, are here displayed in all their mundane pruriency. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
She has here pursued the analysis of character as an end in itself, for in "The Fatal Secret" there is no hint of disguised scandal, nor any appeal to the pruriency of degenerate readers. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
It is also, Hellpach proceeds to point out, thus becoming more moral also, and much unwholesome prudery and pruriency is being done away with. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
They know that most pruriency in the theatre derives from the old frustrations sealed up and festering in the mind of the onlooker who detects it. Nonsenseorship
You don't want to pander to his pruriency! Caesar's Column
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