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Definition of Expurgating

Expurgating
Expurgate Ex"pur*gate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expurgated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expurgating.] [L. expurgatus, p. p. of expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, and cf. Spurge.] To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

Meaning of Expurgating 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...
- Books, the children's imprint of the British publisher Penguin Books, expurgated various works by British author Roald Dahl in 2023, sparking controversy...
- intensified in the late 19th and early 20th century, the word aikāne was expurgated of its original ****ual meaning, and in print simply meant "friend". Nonetheless...
- diaries and journals throughout her life, filling 122 volumes which were expurgated after her death by her daughter Princess Beatrice. Extracts were published...
- the Person Act 1861, ss 61, 62 Ross published a version of the letter expurgated of all references to Douglas in 1905 with the title De Profundis, expanding...
- their appearance starting in 1966 are now sometimes referred to as the "expurgated" editions. This is because in 1986, Rupert Pole, Nin's widower and literary...
- sick man in the expurgated edition. In the second incident, reference is made to cleaning fluff out of the human navel, but the expurgated edition changed...
- success to have English traditional songs (in his own heavily edited and expurgated versions) to be taught to school children in hopes of reviving and prolonging...
- an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta...
- 'La Curée (English: The Kill) is the 2nd novel in Émile Zola's 20-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart serialised from 1871 to 1872 and published in book...