Hypertext Webster Gateway: "obsceneness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)



A girdle foul with grease b??ds his obscene attire.
--Dryden.

3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]

At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds
obscene take flight. --Dryden.

Syn: Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd. --
{Ob*scene"ly}, adv. -- {Ob*scene"ness}, n.

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