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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

/ ˈkʌmˌstɒkərɪ; ˈkɒm- /

noun

  1. immoderate censorship on grounds of immorality
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • dzsٴdze noun
  • dz·ٴdzi· adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Comstockery1

First recorded in 1895–1900; after A. Comstock ( def ) + -ery
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Comstockery1

C20: coined by G. B. Shaw (1905) after Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), US moral crusader, who founded the Society for the Suppression of Vice
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“Comstockery is the world’s standing joke at the expense of the United States,” Shaw commented.

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“Comstockery has been given a new lease on life by this Congress,” 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 “Comstockery.”

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In 1905, George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, referred to censorship-happy moralism as “Comstockery” 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 “masquerades as music,” gender fluidity, sperm banks, bad grammar, video plagiarists and other presumed vices.

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