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 - their pruriencies are not excelled by any republican authors of ancient times.
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