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Censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality
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comstockery
Word definitions for comstockery in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1905, from Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), founder of New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (1873) and self-appointed crusader against immorality, + -ery . Coined by George Bernard Shaw after Comstock objected to "Mrs. Warren's Profession." "Comstockery ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.
Usage examples of comstockery.
Victims of Comstockery and the American system, bastard slaves of the Robber Barons.
Grundyism, less Comstockery, and, at the same time, less dirty Don-Juanism, less of that curiously malignant and vengeful love-making so characteristic of the debauchee under a Christian dispensation.
Puritanism because, so far as I know, the inquiry has not been attempted before, and because a somewhat detailed acquaintance with the forces behind so grotesque a manifestation as comstockery, the particular business of the present essay, is necessary to an understanding of its workings, and of its prosperity, and of its influence upon the arts.