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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 or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or...
- (∴), three dots in a triangle **** (four asterisks in a row), a common expurgation of any four-letter expletive Three star (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
- announced Enid Blyton's works would be expurgated as well. Book censorship Bowdlerism Culture war Expurgation Political correctness Sawer, Patrick (25...
- 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"...
- usum Delphini for the use of the Dauphin Said of a work that has been expurgated of offensive or improper parts. Originates from editions of Gr**** and...
- diaries and journals throughout her life, filling 122 volumes which were expurgated after her death by her daughter Princess Beatrice. Extracts were published...
- 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...
- Martin Page published a compilation of "British military songs without expurgation", titled Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major! The Songs and Ballads of...
- 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...
- original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2011. "The index of expurgations". "Heresy and Error": The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800...