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expurgated

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1. expurgated - Adjective

2. expurgated - Verb

4. expurgated - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Expurgate

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. Walt Whitman

A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. ... Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature. James Branch Cabell

at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions Source: Internet

Another copy of the text was published in 1823, but it had been expurgated by Diderot's daughter prior to publication. Source: Internet

Bulfinch's obituary in the Boston Evening Standard noted that the contents were "expurgated of all that would be offensive". Source: Internet

And believers in Biblical inerrancy might keep in mind that Thomas Jefferson once took scissors and paste to the New Testament, snipping out questionable passages and creating his own expurgated edition. Source: Internet

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