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Definition of Bowdlerize

Bowdlerize
Bowdlerize Bowd"ler*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive. It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison. -- Bowd`ler*i*za"tion, n. -- Bowd"ler*ism, n.

Meaning of Bowdlerize from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- its street address. Adjectives and verbs may be eponyms, for example bowdlerize. Adjectives derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic...
- 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...
- 1830s; they and others consider the expression to have been a simple bowdlerization, with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an unknown origin...
- translations of this kind, such as that of Edward Lane (1840, 1859), were bowdlerized. Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne...
- translator should not ****ume the role of censor and surreptitiously delete or bowdlerize p****ages merely to please a political or moral interest. Translating has...
- ****umed that it was for distribution and, unaware that a politically bowdlerized version had been published by Otis, published the original in both Spanish...