priggism

It is an attempt of the pedagogue to assert a jurisdiction over grown intellects, and hence such books naturally develop in flagrant exaggeration the pragmatical priggism which is the pedagogue's characteristic defect.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

"priggism" [210] -- quarrelled with another, _Gropius_ [211] by name (a very good name too for his business), and muttered something about satisfaction, in a verbal answer to a note of the poor Prussian: this was stated at table to Gropius, who laughed, but could eat no dinner afterwards.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

After some further conversation, the subjects being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, ‘I must now leave you.’

Lavengro 2004

In all the new-fangled comprehensive plans which I see, this is all left out; and the consequence is, that your great mechanics 'institutes end in intellectual priggism, and your Christian young men's societies in religious Pharisaism.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Granville (before his deafness), had a pleasant wit and some cultivation, as had Bromley Davenport, Beresford Hope, and others, as well as Arthur Balfour, but none of these men were or are at a high level; and where you get the high level in England, you fall into priggism.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

[FN#204] Richardson in his excellent dictionary (note 103) which modern priggism finds "unscientific" wonderfully derives this word from Arab.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

'Mamma, I think I'll take out that about official priggism -- hadn't I better, Linda?'

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

'Mamma, I'm sure you would never get over the official priggism.'

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

Provided a hero in his life doth but execute a sufficient quantity of mischief; provided he be but well and heartily cursed by the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the oppressed (the sole rewards, as many authors have bitterly lamented both in prose and verse, of greatness, i. e., priggism),

The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding 1730

Let us at the same time separate ourselves farther from priggism itself.

The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding 1730