pruritus

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Definition

noun an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)

Borrowed from Latin prūrītus (“an itch, an itching”), from prūriō (“to itch”).

Certainly they deserve some distinction from those works, which one of the wittiest of men regarded only as proceeding from a pruritus, or indeed rather from a looseness of the brain. — History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding
In youth he had strongly the Edinburgh pruritus disputandi; but habits of society have greatly mellowed it, and though still anxious to gain your suffrage to his views, he endeavours rather to conciliate your opinion than conquer it by force. — The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford, Walter Scott

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