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Webster 1913 Edition

Obscenity

Ob-scen′i-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Obscenities
(#)
.
[L.
obscentias
: cf. F.
obscénité
.]
That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness;
as, the
obscenity
of a speech, or a picture
.
Mr. Cowley asserts plainly, that
obscenity
has no place in wit.
Dryden.
No pardon vile
obscenity
should find.
Pope.

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