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prudify

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To make prudish.

rare

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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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