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Definition of Expurgations

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 Expurgations 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...
- 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...
- the result was that the British edition was "badly mutilated". The expurgations fall into four categories, ranked according to the apparent priorities...
- Bradbury relates to the reader that it is not uncommon for a publisher to expurgate an author's work, but he ****erts that he himself will not tolerate the...
- Bowdler's expurgations was the conventional view at the time, as reflected by the increasing po****rity and immense success of expurgated or Bowdlerized...
- The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel and tenth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. It is the...
- an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta...