expurgation

NOUN
  1. the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Get Started For Free Linguix pencil

How To Use expurgation In A Sentence

  • The evidence of the Duke of Rothsay in expurgation, as it was termed, of The Fair Maid of Perth
  • I first considered printing the exchange my friend and I had, but quickly realized that expurgation would rob it of its meaning.
  • She has a rather disheartening editorial about the expurgation from educational textbooks anything that could possibly give offense to people.
  • This doctrine, then, of the expurgation of the intellect to qualify it for dealing with truth is comprised in three refutations: the refutation of the philosophies; the refutation of the demonstrations; and the refutation of the natural human reason. The Great Instauration
  • To a large degree such a separation from reality through filtered information occurred when I was a child by the censorship and expurgation of nastiness from school reading books.
  • The Colonel decided to continue without expurgation. Soul
  • For example, if you’re asked if you’ve ever been convicted, when do you still have to say “yes” (because it * did* happen), and when can you answer no since the expurgation is supposed to let you pretend it never happened? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Down the Memory Hole” Speech Restrictions, Supported by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
  • Upon a closer investigation, however, it became evident that the task of expurgation would prove to be a most formidable one, and that a great mass of extraneous matter would require to be inserted in explanation of motives which were wholly personal and therefore to be omitted from the book. Movie Night
  • We know from medieval records and diaries that such threats to purity were carefully categorized and rules given for their expurgation.
  • Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like. Lionel: We Are Our Memories
View all
This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy