comstockery

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality. US,uncountable
    — 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.

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Comstockery alternative

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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