expurgation

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Some people thought that Clark's expurgations had gone too far.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the expurgations of Pope were insufficient to make his version as little exceptionable in the eighteenth century as was the original of Chaucer to the world of the fourteenth century.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

It should not be surprising, however, that Richardson failed to achieve the "successful" expurgations found in Victorian bowdlerizations of his novel.

From Pamela Censured by Anonymous

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.

From Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by Milton, John

Public opinion regarding Persian stories and poems has been led astray by the changes of sex and the expurgations made freely by translators.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus