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expurgate verb abridge, amend by removing, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, clean up, cleanse, cross out, cut, cut out, delete, depurate, efface, enforce censorship, erase, expunge, free from objectionable content, make better, purge, purify, strike out, suppress, weed See also: bowdlerize, censor, censure, diminish, eliminate, eradicate, excise, purge How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| By expurgating literature, we teach them that words are meaningless and fungible. 14) Pace Jed, the same gendered etymology surfaces in the Renaissance vocabulary of textual editing; in early modern English, one refers to expurgating a work of objectionable material (sexual or otherwise) as "castration": thus in 1587 the Privy Council appointed a committee to "castrate" Holinshed's Chronicles. |
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