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Definition of Comstockery
1. Noun. Censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality.
Definition of Comstockery
1. Noun. Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comstockery
Literary usage of Comstockery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Free Press Anthology by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1909)
"gestions of'comstockery, all that relates to life is degraded into the gutter;
and that which would be pure and sweet and wholesome in the home or in the ..."
2. A Book of Prefaces by Henry Louis Mencken (1917)
"The actual complainant is seldom uncovered; comstockery, taking on a semi-judicial
character, throws its chartered immunity around the whole process. ..."
3. Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to by Edward Hale Bierstadt, James Branch Cabell, Arnold Bennett, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Sinclair Lewis, Christopher Morley, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Owen Wister (1920)
"I believe that no movement against comstockery can have any force until these laws
... comstockery is a profitable business, and those who live by it are ..."
4. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, 1850- comstockery. New York World 47: Aug 7, Criticizing
the seizure of the prospectuses of the New York Art Student's League by ..."
5. The New Era in American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"It developed first into a religious tyranny, then into a literary dictatorship
and finally into the orgies of a virulent and inhibiting comstockery, ..."
6. Prejudices: First Series by Henry Louis Mencken (1919)
"... it is comstockery, an idiotic and abominable thing. Genuine criticism is as
impossible to such inordinately narrow and cocksure men as music is to a man ..."
7. Modern Drama and Opera: Reading Lists on the Works of Various Authors by Clara A. Mulliken Norton, Frank Keller Walter, Fanny Elsie Marquand, Archibald Henderson (1911)
"Editorial on Shaw and prudish "comstockery." Archer, William. Mr. Bernard Shaw's
plays. (See his Study and stage — a year-book of criticism. 1899. p. 1-22. ..."
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