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Comstockery

coms·toc·kery

uncommon us

noun

Origin

Named after Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) (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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