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Comstockery

[ kuhm-stok-uh-ree, kom- ]

noun

  1. overzealous moral censorship of the fine arts and literature, often mistaking outspokenly honest works for salacious ones.


comstockery

/ 藞k蕦m藢st蓲k蓹r瑟; 藞k蓲m- /

noun

  1. immoderate censorship on grounds of immorality
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Comstockery1

First recorded in 1895鈥1900; after A. Comstock ( def ) + -ery
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Comstockery1

C20: coined by G. B. Shaw (1905) after Anthony Comstock (1844鈥1915), US moral crusader, who founded the Society for the Suppression of Vice
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鈥淐omstockery is the world鈥檚 standing joke at the expense of the United States,鈥 Shaw commented.

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鈥淐omstockery has been given a new lease on life by this Congress,鈥 Ms. Schroeder, who died in March, mourned at the time in a floor speech.

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George Bernard Shaw said America was suffering from 鈥淐omstockery.鈥

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In 1905, George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, referred to censorship-happy moralism as 鈥淐omstockery鈥 in a letter to The New York Times.

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Yet while chiding extreme libertarianism, Selbourne veers dangerously close to Comstockery in his tsk-tsking of noise that 鈥渕asquerades as music,鈥 gender fluidity, sperm banks, bad grammar, video plagiarists and other presumed vices.

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