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expurgate
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synonyms: bowdlerize, censor ???
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Definition:the act of cleansing something of noxious, sinful or offensive material
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I’m sure the programme will be delightful, after a few expurgations. French songs I cannot possibly allow. People always seem to think that they are improper, and either look shocked, which is vulgar, or laugh, which is worse.
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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Yossarian was busy expurgating all but romance words from the letters when the chaplain sat down in a chair between the beds [...]
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.11 (1961)
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But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita (note from author)
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In vain might Odette expurgate her confession of all its essential part, there would remain in the accessories something which Swann had never yet imagined,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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