Expurgation

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  • n. The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of purging or cleansing, or the state of being purged or cleansed; a cleansing; purification from anything obnoxious, offensive, or erroneous; specifically, the removal, as in an edition of a book, of what is offensive from the point of view of morals or religion.
  • n. In astronomy, the emerging of the sun or moon from eclipse, beginning with the cessation of the total or annular phase (or with the middle of the eclipse if this is partial) and ending with the cessation of the partial phase. See eclipse.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deletion   
    Hyponym
    bowdlerisation    bowdlerization   
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    abstersion    disassociation    soun    micturition    gentlemanliness   
     
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