But a transition from long skirts to short tight ones, impeding movement, is the transition from prudery to pruriency and is by no means a clear gain.
We would still follow our Scribe here, were it not that his pruriency often reaches the edge.
We believe, however, that thepruriency of Orientals, like the prudery of Occidentals, is in fact only an appearance.
The question is complicated among ourselves because established traditions of rigid concealment have fostered a pruriency which is an offensive insult to naked modesty.
It is also, Hellpach proceeds to point out, thus becoming more moral also, and much unwholesome prudery and pruriency is being done away with.
So imperfect is still the education of the multitude that in these matters the ill-bred fanatic of pruriency usually gains his will.
There were the night cafes, where pruriency was draped in literary tags, and flighty women escaped from the restraints of middle-class respectability, competed with the professional music-hall stars for the palm of vulgarity.
Pruriency is the bad way; and with that he has never had anything to do.
There is none of that veiled pruriencywhich lurks underneath the more conventionally expressed, but really vicious sentiments that are to be found in too many novels of our own day.
The play, which had been going none too well, straightway sold out a fortnight in advance, thereby attesting the power of the press as well as the appeal of pruriency to an eager and jaded public.
Thus was afforded to the appreciative reader a double satisfaction, physical and ethical, pruriency and piety.
Of the works which that age has bequeathed to us, nearly all are tainted with the same grossness of language and pruriency of idea.
Pictures of the most revolting pruriency succeed each other rapidly.
