Prudify

Quick meaning: Prudify is a verb meaning (very rare) To make prudish.

Meaning

(very rare) To make prudish.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• prudifies
• prudifying
• prudified

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include depurate, scrupulize, prune, refine, plebify, impurify.

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