It is an attempt of the pedagogue to assert a jurisdiction over grown intellects, and hence such books naturally develop in flagrant exaggeration the pragmatical priggism which is the pedagogue's characteristic defect. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
"priggism" [210] -- quarrelled with another, _Gropius_ [211] by name (a very good name too for his business), and muttered something about satisfaction, in a verbal answer to a note of the poor Prussian: this was stated at table to Gropius, who laughed, but could eat no dinner afterwards. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)
After some further conversation, the subjects being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, ‘I must now leave you.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
In all the new-fangled comprehensive plans which I see, this is all left out; and the consequence is, that your great mechanics 'institutes end in intellectual priggism, and your Christian young men's societies in religious Pharisaism. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
Granville (before his deafness), had a pleasant wit and some cultivation, as had Bromley Davenport, Beresford Hope, and others, as well as Arthur Balfour, but none of these men were or are at a high level; and where you get the high level in England, you fall into priggism. ❋ Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1907)
[FN#204] Richardson in his excellent dictionary (note 103) which modern priggism finds "unscientific" wonderfully derives this word from Arab. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
'Mamma, I'm sure you would never get over the official priggism.' ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
'Mamma, I think I'll take out that about official priggism -- hadn't I better, Linda?' ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
Provided a hero in his life doth but execute a sufficient quantity of mischief; provided he be but well and heartily cursed by the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the oppressed (the sole rewards, as many authors have bitterly lamented both in prose and verse, of greatness, i. e., priggism), ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
Let us at the same time separate ourselves farther from priggism itself. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
204 Richardson in his excellent dictionary (note 103) which modern priggism finds ❋ Unknown (2006)
‘Mamma, I’m sure you would never get over the official priggism.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘Mamma, I think I’ll take out that about official priggism — hadn’t I better, Linda?’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
But while one man pursues his ambition, another his interest, another his safety; while one hath a roguery (a priggism they here call it) to commit, and another a roguery to defend; they must naturally fly to the favour and protection of those who have power to give them what they desire, and to defend them from what they fear; nay, in this view it becomes their interest to promote this power in their patrons. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
"I am an old army man, and have been as staunch a believer in army traditions as any man, but I tell you fairly that I am disgusted at the amount of routine work, delay, and, if I may use the word, priggism, that I see going on. ❋ Unknown (1867)
What remains, therefore, for us but to resolve bravely to lay aside our priggism, our roguery, in plainer words, and preserve our liberty, or to give up the latter in the preservation and preference of the former? " ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
This was, he said, alone sufficient to refute those who affected a contempt for the wisdom of the ancients, and an undeniable testimony of the great antiquity of priggism. [ ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
