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Definition of Expurgation

Expurgation
Expurgation Ex`pur*ga"tion, n. [L. expurgatio justification, excuse: cf. F. expurgation.] The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. --Milton.

Meaning of Expurgation from wikipedia

- An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization, fig-leaf edition or censorship by political correctness is a form of censorship that involves...
- (∴), three dots in a triangle **** (four asterisks in a row), a common expurgation of any four-letter expletive Three star (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
- edited by Puffin) and compared Puffin's actions to Thomas Bowdler's expurgation of William Shakespeare's work. Kemi Badenoch, British Minister for Women...
- Playboy magazine. Starting in January 1967, Fahrenheit 451 was subject to expurgation by its publisher, Ballantine Books, with the release of the "Bal-Hi Edition"...
- 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...
- is best known today because it was one of the books spared during the expurgation of Don Quixote's library in Chapter 6 of Part I of Don Quixote. This...
- The James Bond franchise focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured...
- diaries and journals throughout her life, filling 122 volumes which were expurgated after her death by her daughter Princess Beatrice. Extracts were published...
- original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2011. "The index of expurgations". "Heresy and Error": The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800...
- an interested knowledge of continental Europe. His last work was an expurgation of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously...