“priggism”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

priggism

释义

priggism|ˈprɪgɪz(ə)m|
[f. prig n.³ + -ism.]
†1. Professional thievery or roguery. Obs.
1743Fielding J. Wild i. iii, An undeniable testimony of the great antiquity of Priggism.Ibid. iv. iii, While one hath a roguery (a Priggism they here call it) to commit, and another a roguery to defend.
†2. (Sense obscure.) Obs.
1754A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 86 At a Board of Priggism held here, it was pretty warmly debated..whether a Gentleman acquires more Honour by whoring than by gaming?
3. Priggishness.
a1805A. Carlyle Autobiog. 481 The minister,..an old bachelor,..who had such a mixture of odd qualities in his composition, such as priggism and pendantry, with the affectation of being a finished gentleman.1857Hughes Tom Brown i. ii, That your great Mechanics' Institutes end in intellectual priggism.1891Times 14 Oct. 13/6 The priggism of intellectual pretension is the one unpardonable sin.

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