Category:Obscenity

Ob*scen"i*ty, n.; pl. Obscenities. Etym: [l. obscentias: cf.F. Obscénité.]

Defn: 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. Mr.Cowley Asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit. Dryden. No pardon vile obscenity should find. Pope.