EXPURGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expurgation mean? 

• EXPURGATION (noun)
  The noun EXPURGATION has 1 sense:

1. the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

  Familiarity information: EXPURGATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPURGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

castration; expurgation

Hypernyms ("expurgation" is a kind of...):

deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expurgation"):

bowdlerisation; bowdlerization (the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent)

Derivation:

expurgate (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate)