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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obscenity \Ob*scen"i*ty\, n.; pl {Obscenities}. [L. obscentias:
cf.F. obsc['e]nit['e].]
That quality in words or things which presents what is
offensive to chasity 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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