expurgate
verb (used with object)
to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable.
expurgation
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a word derived from
expurgate.
Example Sentences
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“Censorship and expurgation whether by government or private groups may seem right in the moment, but the future rarely judges them with favor.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
Much of the ire in the Scrabble community has been about a process that was tilted toward expurgation.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2020
During the 1990s furor, Steven Alexander, who is white and Jewish, was one of many players who wrote letters opposing any expurgation.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
“Speaking as a person of colour,” he wrote, “it actually bothers me that some people seem to be thinking of this expurgation as a ‘magnanimous’ gesture.”
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2020
All these are pregnant proofs of the public will, and the last pre-eminently so: because, both the question of the expurgation, and the form of the process, were directly put in issue upon it….
From Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution by Thomas Hart Benton
