prudery

• "I cannot affect," she says, "a prudery which is not natural to me." —  Classic French Course in English
• The advent of an English lady among them was something too excessively novel: even close-veiled women forgot their prudery, and peered out from their blue coverings, screaming with laughter, and pointing as they screamed to the somewhat appalled object of their mirth. —  Southern Arabia
• All prudery--and frequently the clerical dignity is, in social intercourse, nothing else--I detest and despise His inability to restrain his wit in this particular direction has done some injury to his memory. —  Essays on Scandinavian Literature
• The chief obstacle in the way of this ideal is Anglo-Saxon prudery, and, perhaps, the reader will not be persuaded that education for parenthood is our greatest educational need to-day, more especially for girls, until he or she has been persuaded of the magnitude of the preventable evils which flow from our present neglect of this matter. —  Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
• Our present concern is simply to point out that prudery, again, is largely responsible for the continuance of these evils at a time when we have so much precise knowledge regarding their nature and the possibility of their prevention. —  Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles

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