expurgation
Example Sentences
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There was no question of expurgating particular passages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yossarian was busy expurgating all but romance words from the letters when the chaplain sat down in a chair between the beds and asked him how he was feeling.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
You might as well think of expurgating a book on geometry!
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
In answer to this it may be asserted that the French mind was not prepared for a broader field until it had passed through the process of expurgating, refining, drilling, and disciplining.
From Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo Paul Thieme
He became his own diligent self, amassing grain and gold and zealously expurgating for reproduction in bleak chapels that winter a volume of sermons by an Anglican bishop.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
Vocabulary lists containing expurgation
The Importance of Being Earnest
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Novel Study: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 1
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