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Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, uncountable
Examples
- 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.
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Alternative form of comstockery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: censoring, censorship
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.
