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pruriency|ˈprʊərɪənsɪ|
[f. as prec.: see -ency.]
1. The quality of itching, itchingness. rare.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 164 An incipient putrefaction which begets a pruriency or itching in the blood. 1814Cary Dante (Chandos) 90 Each one Plied quickly his keen nails, through furiousness Of ne'er abated pruriency.
2. fig. The quality or condition of mental itching.
1711Steele Spect. No. 151 ⁋2 A general Impatience of Thought, and a constant Pruriency of inordinate Desire. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 142/1 We have scourges in store for the pruriency of dissatisfaction.
3. Liking for or tendency towards impure or lascivious thought; an instance of this.
1795Roscoe Lorenzo de Medici I. i. 51 A pruriency of imagination, not excuseable at any time of life. 1867Burton Hist. Scot. (1873) I. vi. 225 The pruriency that stains the classical mythology. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths 40 She will have learned what..the wrapt-up pruriencies intend. |