English Explanatory Dictionary

comstockery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.
noun
  1. Alternative form of comstockery.

Word forms

comstockery

Etymology

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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