prudify

present singular third person prudifies · participle present prudifying · participle past prudified · past prudified

1. rareTo make prudish.

   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.

   2003, Bridges, volume 10, numbers 1-4, page 113

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   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.

   1829, The English in France, volume 1, page 139