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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery , his belligerence, his sensitivity.
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For those raised in the prudery of puritanism or the celibacy-conscious preoccupations of Catholicism this ran against the grain.
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I am convinced that Victorian prudery was much to blame for this, and modern treatment might have much ameliorated it.
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Surely, they feel, youthful vigour should outgun out-of-date prudery .