Word Meanings - BAWDINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Obscenity; lewdness.
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- OBSCENITY
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