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Meanings of pruriency 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
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.
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.
Usage of pruriency in English
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.
Frequent collocations
Translations for pruriency
Spanish
Pruriency through the time