Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.
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.
6
The question was not of Greek statues and classical books, but of modern pruriencies and shallowness and irresponsibility.
7
Beaumont and Fletcher, Rochester, Dean Swift, wrote under monarchies-theirpruriencies are not excelled by any republican authors of ancient times.