priggism

[ prig-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. priggish character or ideas; priggishness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of priggism¹

First recorded in 1735–45; prig ¹ + -ism

Example Sentences

There is a dash of solemnity, a ludicrous assumption of priggism, about the Scottish fool which Mr White has entirely evaded.

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A striking characteristic of these learned women was the entire absence of all priggism or pedantry.

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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.

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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”.

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After some farther conversation, the subjects p. 126being, 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.”

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