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- adjective Of or relating to Anthony Comstock (1844–1915),
United States postal inspector andpolitician dedicated to ideas ofVictorian morality .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When FCC chairman Michael Powell bellows his outrage at the recent NFL halftime show, he evidences a Comstockian prudery jarringly anachronistic and violently at odds with the made-for-TV spectacle.
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006
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Thus, in Asch's Mottke the Scamp, which ran serially in the columns of the New York Forward, the world's largest Yiddish daily, and was afterward published in book form, achieving an enormous sale, there are certain passages to which Comstockian readers would certainly object strongly in an English version.
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One pities the jurisconsult who is condemned, by Comstockian clamour, to plough through such a novel.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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I should add also that the Comstockian imbecilities described in Chapter IV are still going on, and that the general trend of American legislation and jurisprudence is toward their indefinite continuance.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Yet it is not long since Mr. Whitman was made the target of the "prurient prudes," who carry on the Comstockian movement of the Vice Society, and was ordered to expunge some of his writings.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 1856
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She's upstaged (figuratively) two songs later by the blonde Inga (Anne Horak), a Transylvanian tootsie whose assets only a Comstockian might describe as over-developed and over-exposed.
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