Sentence:  Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even <WSD>bawdry</WSD> its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which w 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.