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Meanings of pruriency in English

Portuguese
lasciva
Catalan
carnalitat
Spanish
carnalidad

Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.

        lasciva
        Usage of pruriency in English
        1
        There never was an age in which pruriency in any guise could cease to be indecent.
        My Contemporaries In Fiction
        2
        He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells.
        A Hero and Some Other Folks
        3
        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
        4
        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
        5
        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
        6
        The question was not of Greek statues and classical books, but of modern pruriencies and shallowness and irresponsibility.
        The Emancipated
        7
        Beaumont and Fletcher, Rochester, Dean Swift, wrote under monarchies-theirpruriencies are not excelled by any republican authors of ancient times.
        Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II
        Translations for pruriency
        Spanish
        carnalidad
        Pruriency through the time