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单词 prudify
释义

prudify

English

Etymology

prude + -ify

Verb

prudify (third-person singular simple present prudifies, present participle prudifying, simple past and past participle prudified)

  1. (rare) To make prudish.
    • 1829, The English in France, volume 1, page 139:
      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.
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