Prudify
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make prudish. rare
"Nor was he wrong, as far as regarded Gertrude and himself; Miss Freemantle soon forgetting her strange gallants, their hoped-for proposals, and the anticipated delight of weighing, and calculating and prudifying, previous to the magnanimous finale of rejection."
Example
More examples"Nor was he wrong, as far as regarded Gertrude and himself; Miss Freemantle soon forgetting her strange gallants, their hoped-for proposals, and the anticipated delight of weighing, and calculating and prudifying, previous to the magnanimous finale of rejection."
Etymology
From prude + -ify.
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