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Bowdlerise

verb
1.
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.  Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten.



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"Bowdlerise" Quotes from Famous Books



... under the Third Republic. The dream and desire of M. Ferry and his friends are to prohibit ministers of religion from taking any part whatever in the education of the French people. Already the municipal council of Paris has undertaken to 'bowdlerise' the literature of the world in order to prevent the minds of the young from being perverted by coming into contact with the name of God. These good butchers and bakers and candlestick-makers of the Seine really believe, like ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... to be found in the relation of the sexes, conceived in a natural, simple and healthy form, and he protests against poor Mr. William Rossetti's attempt to Bowdlerise and ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde


Words linked to "Bowdlerise" :   bowdlerisation, bowdleriser, foreshorten, contract, abbreviate, bowdlerize, abridge, expurgate, castrate, reduce, Bowdler, shorten, cut


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