
1) Castration 2) Deletion
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1) Removal 2) Restriction
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Expurgation is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive, usually from an artistic work. Bowdlerization is a pejorative term for the practice, particularly the expurgation of lewd material from books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler`s 1818 edition of William Shakespeare`s plays, which he reworked in or.....
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• (n.) The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
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Ex`pur·ga'tion noun [ Latin
expurgatio justification, excuse: confer French
expurgation .] The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
Milton. Found on
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[
n] - the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
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noun the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
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