Word: priggish
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Though the priggish pronunciation "Inquiry" is often heard, I have never known justice to be done to discrepancy, chestnut, or hecatomb since in college, and rarely to romance, finance, research, and resource. I have no desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district...
...sermons of another; and those who are in any way remarkable for their strictness of life are seldom, if ever, taunted with the charge of exclusiveness. The good effect of such a state of feeling upon those who are to become ministers is almost incalculable. No bigoted or "priggish" character can be fostered in one who, without contempt or distrust, associates freely with men of all degrees of "goodness," and of many forms of belief...
Nectarian draught, by priggish lips traduced...