comstockery

n. 对有伤风化的文艺作品的强烈反对

别名

Comstockery

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.

    美国 不可数

    1905, George Bernard Shaw, letter, New York Times, Sept. 26, 1905, Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States.

    1916, H. L. Mencken, column, Baltimore Evening Sun, July, 19, 1916, A people unconvinced of the pervasiveness of sin, the supreme importance of moral problems, the need of harsh and inquisitorial laws--in brief, of the whole Puritan theological and political apparatus--would never have permitted the growth of such curious flowers as Comstockery, so obnoxious and so incomprehensible to all foreigners.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

censorship censoring

词源

Named after Anthony Comstock (1844–1915) (and the Comstock laws which he propagated) + -ery, coined in an editorial in The New York Times in 1895 and famously adopted by George Bernard Shaw in 1905.

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