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obscenities |
1 definition found 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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