prudify

English

Etymology

prude +‎ -ify

Verb

prudify (third-person singular simple present prudifies, present participle prudifying, simple past and past participle prudified)

1. (very rare) To make prudish.
   • 1829, The English in France, volume 1, page 139:

     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.

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

     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.