† obscenousnessn.
Obsolete. rare.
Obscenity.
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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
1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶vij In all Ariosto..there is not a word of ribaldry or obscenousnes [1634 obscenousnesse].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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n.1591- to smell the flowers
- to smell the ground
- to smell the roses
- to smile etc goodbye
- to smile from ear to ear
- to smile goodbye
- to smile hug goodbye
- to smite a a homer
- to smite a animal dead
- to smite a animal to death
- to smite a animal to the death
- to smite a etc
- to smite a etc to death
- to smite a etc to the death
- to smite a person dead
- to smite a person through
- to smite a person to death
- to smite a person to the death
- to smite a person to the earth
- to smite a person to the floor
- to smite a person to the ground
- to smite a six
- to smite a thing to the earth
- to smite a thing to the floor
- to smite a thing to the ground