| 单词 | expurgation |
| 释义 | expurgation (once / 85032 pages) n Expurgation means removing parts of a written work that are offensive or objectionable. After your fussy teacher's expurgation of your short story, you might hardly recognize the tame prose that's left. Some famous works of literature undergo a thorough expurgation by well-meaning editors who want to make the stories less upsetting for younger readers. Others see any kind of expurgation of a book as censorship — the unfair suppression of artistic expression by some authority figure. Expurgation, with its fifteenth century meaning of "a cleansing from impurity," has a Latin root, expurgare, "to cleanse out, purge, or purify." WORD FAMILYexpurgation: expurgations+/expurgate: expurgated, expurgates, expurgating, expurgation, expurgator/expurgated: unexpurgated/expurgator: expurgators USAGE EXAMPLESExactly who was Sam Harris protecting in this flagrant and sanctimonious act of expurgation? Salon(Mar 07, 2016) This fictional movie plays as both exposé and expurgation — a way for its maker to vent frustrations with the academic system. New York Times(Nov 27, 2014) Also apparently missing are two of the most dramatic scenes, a rape and an escape from a convent, likely lost to an earlier expurgation. New York Times(Mar 11, 2011) n the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work Syn|Hypo|Hyper castration bowdlerisation, bowdlerization the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent deletion the act of deleting something written or printed |
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