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Definition of Obscenity
Obscenity

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.

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Obscenity Quotations

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
David Herbert Lawrence

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Henry Miller

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
Phyllis Schlafly

Obscenity Translations

obscenity in Italian is lascivia
obscenity in Spanish is obscenidad


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