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Definition of Anthony Comstock
1. Noun. United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915).
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Literary usage of Anthony Comstock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beecher Memorial: Contemporaneous Tributes to the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher by Edward William Bok (1887)
"Anthony Comstock. WHAT pen can describe the gifts with which the Almighty endowed
Henry Ward Beecher ? As well attempt to count the sands of the sea or the ..."
2. The National Purity Congress: Its Papers, Addresses, Portraits. An by American Purity Alliance (1896)
"By Anthony Comstock. For every effect there is first a cause. Before each harvest
a seed sowing or planting. The carnage of battle makes the ambulance corps ..."
3. Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women with Practical by William C. King, Charles Henry Parkhurst (1900)
"Anthony Comstock, Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, New York
City. " The labor of a day will not build up a virtuous ..."
4. Sexual Problems of Today by William Josephus Robinson (1919)
"Anthony Comstock: Dear Sir—She has been married just eleven years, and in these
eleven years she has not menstruated even once. That's all. Yes. ..."
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