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pornographic, a.|pɔːnəˈgræfɪk|
[f. as prec. + -ic. So F. pornographique.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of pornography; dealing in the obscene.
1880Guardian 27 Oct. 1450 The excesses of the [French] press designated as ‘pornographic’..have..become such as to compel the authorities to adopt strong measures against them. 1881Symonds Ital. Renaiss., Ital. Lit. ii. xiv. 365 Pornographic Pamphleteers and Poets. 1894Stead If Christ Came to Chicago 117 Two booksellers..whose windows still contain a large and varied collection of pornographic literature.
Hence pornoˈgraphica, pornographic literature or art; pornoˈgraphical a. (in quot. fig.); pornoˈgraphically adv.; pornographico- comb. form, as pornoˈgraphico-deˈvotional adj.; porno-graphize v. trans., to make pornographic in character.
1917J. B. Cabell Cream of Jest ii. v. 65 The latest masterpiece of a pornographically gifted genius. 1921Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Feb. 90/4 She introduced him to a coward, an alienist who was himself mad, a pornographically minded professor. 1939A. Toynbee Study of Hist. V. 531 Apuleius's pornographico-devotional romance [sc. Metamorphoses]. 1966New Statesman 16 Dec. 912/3 Within half a mile of Great Marlborough Street, shops with red neon signs offering ‘Books’ go on selling printed pornographica at eight quid a time. 1968Economist 7 Dec. 79/3 Facing the exchange rate problem, he maintained, does not mean that ‘pornographical financial thoughts are being harboured’. 1971S. Cavell World Viewed xiii. 95 Godard perceives..that our tastes and convictions in love have become pornographized. 1973J. Money in Zubin & Money Contemp. Sexual Behavior 414 True Confessions and True Love magazine stories are, in fact, the genuine pornography of women. So women have been allowed to enjoy themselves pornographically as much as they desire. 1978D. Murray Place Apart ix. 199, I stood in the middle of the road being pornographically insulted. |