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Prurience

noun
1.
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.  Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency.





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"Prurience" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mme. de Sautron shuddered. "Quintin is a boor. His conduct is unheard of. That M. de La Tour d'Azyr should parade himself before you so that you may make up your mind whether he is the proper man for you!" Again she shuddered. "It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Mon Dieu! When I married your uncle, all this was arranged between our parents. I first saw him when he came to sign the contract. I should have died of shame had it been otherwise. And that is how these affairs should ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini


Words linked to "Prurience" :   sexiness, prurient, amorousness, erotism, eroticism, pruriency, amativeness


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