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  • n  feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

  • The old publicity campaigner guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance as nothing in the juiceless film itself could.
  • An attack on impotent pruriency.
  • The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles.

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