Crossword-Solution: PRURIENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prurience | n. | Alt. of Pruriency |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PRURIENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lustful longing | 1 answer |
| Lasciviousness | 2 answers |
| concupiscence | 27 answers |
| Lewdness | 35 answers |
| Eros | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRURIENCE (5)
They are too often confused in England now, and though our modern Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment.
His enormous popularity, the widest in the world of letters, owes absolutely nothing to prurience or curiosity.
Readers who have perused the ten volumes will probably agree with me that the naïve indecencies of the text are rather gaudis-serie than prurience; and, when delivered with mirth and humour, they are rather the “excrements of wit” than designed for debauching the mind.
The sense of humour of the Cinquecento was primitive, and in primitive humour prurience plays ever an important part, as is discernible in the literature and comedies of that age.
Like some one afflicted with a consuming disease, whom a continual prurience induces to scratch himself, the perception and terror of that abominable, swift and secret work of time filled her soul with an irresistible need of verifying it in her mirrors.
Quotes with PRURIENCE (2)
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2020).