-
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...
- marriage.
Peter ****
writes that the Puritans'
standard re****tion for "dour
prudery" was a "misreading that went
unquestioned in the
nineteenth century". He...
-
period as
characterised by a
distinctive mixture of prosperity,
domestic prudery, and complacency—what G. M.
Trevelyan called the 'mid-Victorian decades...
- 'mumble', 'grunt', and 'gruntled'. Roget's
Thesaurus places Grundyism under prudery,
linked most
closely to euphemism. C. S. Lewis's
character Mark Studdock...
- 25
September 2023. Fryer,
Peter (1964). Mrs Grundy:
Studies in
English Prudery. New York:
London House & Maxwell. p. 201. In
German speaking countries...
- 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...
-
through bookmakers,
allegedly having been
informed that the
second favorite,
Prudery, was off her feed. Just
before post time and
without explanation, Hildreth...
- of
subjects worthy of
intellectual attention: it
cannot be
isolated by
prudery or
relegated to
science for its
purely biological dimension." On 10 November...
- 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...
