prudify

Etymology

From prude + -ify.

prudify means to make prudish. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

verb

To make prudish.“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.”