comstockery

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

(and the Comstock laws which he propagated) + -ery, coined in an editorial in The New York Times in 1895 and famously adopted by George Bernard Shaw in 1905.

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