“prurience”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

prurience

释义

prurience|ˈprʊərɪəns|
[f. as prurient: see -ence.]
1. The physical fact or sensation of itching.
a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 83 Pruriences and Titillations of the Body.
2. fig. Mental itching or craving.
1829I. Taylor Enthus. ix. 231 An irresistible prurience asking for the marvellous.1837[see pruriently].1879F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 29 This literary prurience after new print unmans us.
3. = pruriency 3.
1781Cowper Conversat. 31 There is a prurience in the speech of some, Wrath stays him, or else God would strike them dumb.1926H. W. Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 473/1 Prurience, -cy. There is no differentiation; -ence is recommended.1974C. Ricks Keats & Embarrassment i. 15 Prurience, pruriency, and prurient came fully into their modern meaning (from ‘itching’) in the eighteenth century.

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