expurgate
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The day has not even yet passed when the press, employed in the service of education and morality, expurgates from the books which are put into the hands of the young all reflections on slavery.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.
The former deals with contemporary life, while the latter expurgates and embellishes history after the manner of Walter Scott.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
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