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Definition of Pruderies

Pruderies
Prudery Prud"er*y, n.; pl. Pruderies. [F. pruderie. See Prude.] The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness. --Cowper.

Meaning of Pruderies from wikipedia

- Universal Lexikon in 1861, prudery is "modest in an exaggerated and affected way; seeming delicate, squeamish". In a broader sense, prudery refers to an attitude...
- Vout (2009), pp. 204–220, especially 206, 211; Métraux, Guy P.R. (2008). "Prudery and Chic in Late Antique Clothing". Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman...
- period as characterised by a distinctive mixture of prosperity, domestic prudery, and complacency—what G. M. Trevelyan called the 'mid-Victorian decades...
- marriage. Peter **** writes that the Puritans' standard re****tion for "dour prudery" was a "misreading that went unquestioned in the nineteenth century". He...
- and where to find it. A third significant problem is that the "excessive prudery" common in the middle of the 20th century means that obscene, ****ual and...
- had been educated in British institution and had adapted to Victorian prudery joined the criticism, states Margaret Walker, possibly because they had...
- seeing children naked seems to be mainly a recent phenomenon." Despite the prudery of the Victorian era in Britain, children being unclothed was accepted...
- through bookmakers, allegedly having been informed that the second favorite, Prudery, was off her feed. Just before post time and without explanation, Hildreth...
- of the folkloric subject material, which he considered to be "excessive prudery" and a form of censorship. The ATU folktype index has been criticized for...
- reviewers understood the change as reflecting American "refinement" and "prudery." A style guide to British English usage, H.W. Fowler's A Dictionary of...