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expurgation

noun as in catharsis

noun as in defecation

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Example Sentences

Even as late as the year 1825, a Spanish standard author could not be republished without expurgation.

Perhaps it is too much to ask for complete typographical expurgation of our libraries.

It was he too who had the privilege of witnessing the expurgation of the Islands of the excommunications and admonitions of Rome.

To do that would require a complete expurgation of the journal.

In their work no later expurgation could cleanse away that which their work could not contain.

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On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expurgation, such as: ablution, abreaction, cleansing, purgation, purification, and release.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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