Obscenery
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of obscenity. countable, rare, uncountable
"I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]"
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More examples"I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]"
Etymology
From obscene + -ery.
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