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bowdlerizing

  1. Amending a book by removing passages and words deemed obscene or objectionable ( see obscenity ). The name comes from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of the plays of William Shakespeare , which was amended so that it could “be read aloud in a family.”


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Presumably the authors would have to acquiesce in such bowdlerizing.

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