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Comstockery|ˈkɒmstɒkərɪ|
Also comstockery.
[f. the name of Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), member of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.]
Excessive opposition to, or censorship of, supposed immorality in art or literature; prudery. So ˈComstocker, one who advocates or practises Comstockery; ˈComstockish a.; ˈComstockism.
1905G. B. Shaw in N. York Times 26 Sept. 1/7 Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States. Ibid. 2/1 The good intentions of the leaders of the Comstockers. Ibid., Socialism may become the..Puritanism of the Comstocker. 1906Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 4/2 Played by American ladies one can only say, discreetly, that it is Comstockish. 1909Ware Passing Eng., Comstockism (Amer.-Eng., 1885 on), opposition to the nude in art. 1911T. A. Schroeder ‘Obscene’ Lit. 101 There is no organized force in American life which is more pernicious..than..Comstockery. 1915Survey 6 Nov. 128/2 Liberalism in public affairs may become Comstockism in morals. 1921J. B. Cabell Jurgen p. xvi, She is the Mrs. Grundy of the Leshy; she is Comstockery: and her shadow is commonsense. 1923A. Huxley On Margin 45 Such minor menaces as Prohibition, Lord Northcliffe, Mr. Bryan, Comstockery. 1933Scrutiny June 106 He [Dreiser] did have genuine grievances against timid publishers, moral reviewers and comstockery in general. 1965P. Fryer Birth Controllers xix. 204 She [sc. Margaret Sanger] declared war on Comstock and comstockery by launching her own monthly sheet. |