Definition of Prurience

1. Noun. Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.


Definition of Prurience

1. n. The quality or state of being prurient.

Definition of Prurience

1. Noun. The quality of being prurient. ¹

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Definition of Prurience

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prurience

prunin
pruning
pruning hook
pruning knife
pruning saw
pruning shears
pruninghook
pruninghooks
prunings
pruno
prunt
prunted
prunts
prunus
prunuses
prurience (current term)
pruriences
pruriencies
pruriency
pruriently
pruriginous
prurigo
prurigos
pruritic
prurition
pruritions
pruritis
pruritogenic
pruritus

Literary usage of Prurience

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"... become an object of attention or notoriety, sometime npon a prurience in the sexual propensities; but quite as frequently it U pro bably real insanity. ..."

2. The Age of Shakespeare by ALGERNON CHARLES. SWINBURNE (1908)
"lence or vehemence of satire has no taint of gloating or morbid prurience in the turbid flow of its fitful and furious rhetoric. ..."

3. The Future of Privacy by Perri 6 (1998)
"... holistic government, media prurience, the harder it is likely to be to justify augmentation of the regulatory capacity of data protection authorities ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1871)
"What other people call prurience and indecency, we should often set down to want of taste. For if there is one surer test of a gentleman than another it is ..."

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