- An
expurgation of a work, also
known as a
bowdlerization, is a form of
censorship that
involves purging anything deemed noxious or
offensive from an artistic...
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Bowdler the Younger. From his name
derives the
eponym verb
bowdlerise or
bowdlerize,
meaning to
expurgate or to
censor something through the
omission of elements...
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separate volumes, e.g. The
Fellowship of the Ring. Dyson's
actual comment,
bowdlerized in the TV version, was "Not
another ****ing Elf!" Grovier,
Kelly (29...
- 1830s; they and
others consider the
expression to have been a
simple bowdlerization, with,
according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, an
unknown origin...
-
Thomas Hardy. It was
written in 1866 but
first published, in a
slightly bowdlerized form, in
Poems of the Past and the
Present (1901).
Thomas Hardy's "The...
- tale
genre as a
genre for children, and has been
accused by some of
bowdlerizing the
gritty naturalism – and
sometimes unhappy endings – of many folk...
- its
street address.
Adjectives and
verbs may be eponyms, for
example bowdlerize.
Adjectives derived from the word
eponym include eponymous and eponymic...
- the
United States "Fellow" is
substituted for "****" or "****er" in
bowdlerized or
sanitized versions of the acronym. Quote: "Designing the B-29 had...
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translations of this kind, such as that of
Edward Lane (1840, 1859), were
bowdlerized.
Unabridged and
unexpurgated translations were made,
first by John Payne...
-
released in 2011. This show
garnered particular praise for
refusing to
bowdlerize many of the
sadder or more
unpleasant aspects of the
source works, which...
