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Meanings of affect primness in English

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Usage of affect primness in English
1
Fifty-six per cent reported cases of superfine elegance or affected primness or precision in the use of words.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
2
You will find some at perfect ease in conversation who, touching pen to paper, exhibit the affected primness commonly ascribed to the maiden aunt.
A Williams Anthology / A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Wi...