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Significados de pruriency em inglês

português
lasciva
catalão
carnalitat
espanhol
carnalidad

Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.

lasciva
Uso de pruriency em inglês
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
espanhol
carnalidad
Pruriency ao longo do tempo