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Meanings of prurience in English
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.
Synonyms
Examples for "lasciviousness"
Examples for "lasciviousness"
1
For a moment her illusory lasciviousness vanished, and her genuine personality slipped through.
2
This were indeed to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness.
3
Many fall off from covetousness to pride and lasciviousness: take heed of this.
4
Secondly, he warns them of the fearful danger of depravity, pride, and lasciviousness.
5
And in how many ways are children destroyed by the lasciviousness of man?
1
One could not help smiling at the mixture of piety, pomp, and carnality.
2
Besides, the laws that govern premarital carnality care not of the coupling's mutuality.
3
Its fellows lapped at the psychoscent, sported like porpoises in clouds of carnality.
4
The generous cleavage, the bed hair, the volatile temperament, the carnality.
5
It struck Max, enough to extinguish all thoughts of carnality.
1
The works of our standard authors in literature abound in lubricity.
2
For the first time he understands the motionless lubricity of trees.
3
Yet I love facts, and hate lubricity and people without perception.
4
Dogs were offered in sacrifice to them-presumablybecause of the lubricity of that animal.
5
He also inspected the crypts of churches, to unearth traces of the priests' lubricity.
1
There never was an age in which pruriency in any guise could cease to be indecent.
2
He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells.
3
His bodily senses grow acute, even to barren and inhuman pruriency; while his mental become proportionally obtuse.
4
By its suggestion of horror it provoked that hunger for details which, in its acute stage, becomes pruriency.
5
He had no claptrap, no great cause, none of the disease of pruriency which came into fashion with Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.
Usage of prurience in English
1
What happened next has been the source of much prurience from biographers.
2
It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Mon Dieu!
3
This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
4
And Deborah feels it again: that mix of vicarious prurience tinged with jealousy.
5
A man will almost inevitably scare up accusations of inappropriate prurience.
6
My motive, as well as I can remember, was not prurience but simple curiosity.
7
A current example is the prurience with which many habitual "Oilers" condemn homosexuality.
8
Their affair, which lasted three years, created a media feeding frenzy of prurience about lesbianism.
9
He is equally concerned to defend himself against the obvious charges of prurience and immorality:
10
It is refreshing to turn from cynicism and prurience, to gentle and more harmless pleasantry.
11
She could not tell if she was driven by prurience, or a more noble instinct.
12
The Speak Outs are to probe such large subjects as prurience, marijuana, and the free press.
13
That is so whether the motive for such intrusion is merely prurience or a moral crusade.
14
A sanctimonious note was detectable in most coverage and normally sober RTE radio displayed astonishing, lavatorial prurience.
15
The tetchy nature of the meetings and their particular familial feel has a prurience off of its own.
16
The anonymous subjects are all prostitutes (left), but there is no hint of prurience, or prudery.
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Spanish
Prurience through the time