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Definition of Pruderies
1. prudery [n] - See also: prudery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pruderies
Literary usage of Pruderies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of a Midget by Walter De la Mare (1922)
"Possibly I carried this habit to excess; and yet, of course, remained the slave
of my own small pruderies. Still, I don't think it was either Mrs ..."
2. Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis (1910)
"All great literature touches nakedly and sanely on the central facts of sex.
It is always consoling to remember this in an age of petty pruderies. ..."
3. The Works of Molière: French and English. In Ten Volumes by Molière (1755)
"My Daughter is of a Race too full of Virtue to be inclin'd to do any thing that
Honour can be wounded by; end. as for the Family of the pruderies, there has ..."
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