How To Use Expurgation In A Sentence
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The evidence of the Duke of Rothsay in expurgation, as it was termed, of
The Fair Maid of Perth
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I first considered printing the exchange my friend and I had, but quickly realized that expurgation would rob it of its meaning.
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She has a rather disheartening editorial about the expurgation from educational textbooks anything that could possibly give offense to people.
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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
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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.
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The Colonel decided to continue without expurgation.
Soul
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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)
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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
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We know from medieval records and diaries that such threats to purity were carefully categorized and rules given for their expurgation.
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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
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: -- "In Cardani de Subtilitate et de Varietate libris passim latet anguis in herba et indiget expurgatione Ecclesiasticæ limæ.
Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
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Suzman says the letter in the novel is an expurgation of how he wished he could have been with his mother.
The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman
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Believe me, the secret traitor will not dare to absent himself from an expurgation so solemn, lest his very absence should be matter of suspicion.
The Talisman
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There be also books which are partly useful and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.
Areopagitica
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In concern of the controversy caused by the expurgation of plane geometry in the new high school math textbook, we spend one year penetrating deeply in this area.
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The epic has been the object of adaptation, interpolation, reinterpretation and expurgation by a number of retellers, each seeking to reflect what he saw as relevant to his time.
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On the other hand, Atrios explaining "Why We Say 'F***' a Lot" (expurgation most definitely not in the original) fares far less well at Wood's hands.
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