单词 | obsceneness |
释义 | obscenenessn. Now rare. The quality of being obscene; offensiveness; obscenity. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > lewdness, bawdiness, or obscenity filthOE harlotryc1384 filthiness?1504 brothelry?1526 lewdness1578 obscenity1589 obscenousness1591 spurcity1608 obscenenessa1637 bawdiness1731 priapism1758 nast1789 hircosity1873 raunch1957 raunchiness1962 sluttiness1972 slackness1980 a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1904 in Wks. (1640) III Herein is seene..[the] Elegance, and Propriety [of words], when wee use them fitly,..as when wee..escape obscenenesse, and gaine in the grace and property, which helpes significance. 1647 W. Cartwright in J. Fletcher Mad Lover Pref. Whose wit our nice times would obsceannesse call. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxiv Fables..free from any note of Infamy or Obsceneness. 1709 R. Gould Wks. 24 What has this Age produc'd from Female Pens But an Obsceneness that out-strides the Men's? 1726 E. Thomas Poems Several Occasions 50 Flatt'ry she hates, all pert Obsceneness more: Nor can She Patron's for their Gold adore. 1890 F. W. O. Ward 'Twixt Kiss & Lip ii. 605 He is filthy with foulest obsceneness, Both at heart and on hand. 1899 R. W. Buchanan New Rome 298 And all the foulness and obsceneness Of dress and form, of face and look. 1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. ii. 4/4 Light a candle in the midst of the pornographic disintegration of our civilization with all its obsceneness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1637 |
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