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Obscene [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Offensive to chastity and delicacy; impure; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity and decency forbid; to be exposed; as obscene language; obscene pictures.

2. Foul; filthy; offensive; disgusting.

3. A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.

4. Inauspicious; ill omened.

5. At the cheerful light, the groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.

Obscene [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.

2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.

3. Inauspicious; ill-omened.

Obscenely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a manner offensive to chastity or purity; impurely; unchastely.

Obsceneness [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. OBSCE'NENESS ,

2. OBSCEN'ITY, noun [Latin obscaenitas.]

3. Impurity in expression or representation; that quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind; ribaldry.

4. Cowley asserts plainly that obscenity has no place in wit.

5. Those fables were tempered with the Italian severity, and free from any note of infamy or obsceneness

6. No pardon vile obscenity should find.

7. Unchaste actions; lewdness.

8. To wash th' obscenities of night away.