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prudify en · VERB

Etymology

From prude + -ify.

Meanings

1. (rare) To make prudish.
   • 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. 1829, The English in France, volume 1, page 139:
   • Of course, what was available to those literates was shaped by a complex of academics, journalizing mandarins, puffing publishers, and alternately propagandistic (read this) and prudifying (don't read that) politics. 2003, Bridges, volume 10, numbers 1-4, page 113:

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