bowdlerization

bowd·ler·ize (b

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, boud

tr.v. bowd·ler·ized, bowd·ler·iz·ing, bowd·ler·iz·es

To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example).

[After Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.]

bowdler·ism n.

bowdler·i·zation (-l

-z

n) n.

bowdler·izer n.

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Noun	1.	bowdlerization - written material that has been bowdlerized bowdlerisation piece of writing, written material, writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
	2.	bowdlerization - the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent bowdlerisation expurgation, castration - the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

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bowdlerization [ˌbaʊdləraɪˈzeɪʃən] N → expurgación f

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If Bingaman doesn't know -- and he most certainly should know -- that the Republicans will squeeze out every possible bowdlerization of real health care reform and then vote against it no matter what it contains, he is either hopelessly naive or completely disingenuous.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

Aside from assigning a covert clerical status to writers and literary critics--"the divine literatus," as Whitman put it--supplanting sacred texts with literature would require the bowdlerization of at least nine-tenths of our literary canon.

This book is not good by McCarraher, Eugene / Commonweal

In response to these two complaints by one viewer, Turner Broadcasting has pledged to excise every positive depiction of smoking from its library of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, a bowdlerization the company described as "a voluntary step we've taken in light of the changing times.

Tom's last cigarette: toons go cold turkey by Sullum, Jacob / Reason

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