The Devil's Dictionary: Salacity
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
SALACITY
-n.
A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.
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