expurgator
- a word derived from expurgate.
Example Sentences
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Self-congratulatory, combining limitless prudery with limitless zeal, the expurgator haunted the live authors of the 19th century, and the dead authors of every century previous.
From Time Magazine Archive
An expurgator may begin quietly enough by "lopping" or "cutting."
From Time Magazine Archive
The only member of the family to survive the war, Otto was both custodian of his daughter's legacy, and its expurgator.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when Herman and Verman set to 't the record must be no more than a few fragments left by the expurgator.
From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth
He was then employed as expurgator of Hebrew books.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
