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Grundyism vs Comstockery - What's the difference?

grundyism | comstockery |

As a noun comstockery is

censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.

grundyism

Not English

Grundyism has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'grundyism':

grandmom, groundworm, grandmum, groomdom

comstockery

English

Noun

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  • Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.
  • *1905 , George Bernard Shaw, letter, New York Times , Sept. 26, 1905,
  • *:Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States.
  • *1916 , H. L. Mencken, column, Baltimore Evening Sun , July, 19, 1916,
  • *:A people unconvinced of the pervasiveness of sin, the supreme importance of moral problems, the need of harsh and inquisitorial laws--in brief, of the whole Puritan theological and political apparatus--would never have permitted the growth of such curious flowers as Comstockery, so obnoxious and so incomprehensible to all foreigners.

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