Definitions
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- noun
itching
Etymologies
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From Latin prurire ‘to itch’.
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Examples
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He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.
Ulysses 2003
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He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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