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Word Meanings - PRIGGISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- Prig"gish*ly, adv. -- Prig"gish-ness, n.

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  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • DEMURE
    good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • STARCHER
    One who starches.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • STIFFENING
    1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • CONCEITEDLY
    1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
  • CONCEITEDNESS
    The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • AFFECTER
    One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
  • STIFF
    Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
  • FORMALIZE
    1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
  • AFFECTIVE
    1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
  • FORMAL
    1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
  • AFFECTIONATED
    Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
  • DEMURENESS
    The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
  • AFFECTIONATE
    1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
  • UNIFORMAL
    Uniform. Herrick.
  • RESTIFF
    Restive.
  • RESTIFFNESS
    Restiveness.
  • SELF-CONCEIT
    Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
  • ARISTARCH
    A severe critic. Knowles.
  • MISAFFECTED
    Ill disposed.

 

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