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Bowdlerization - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Bowdlerization : (noun)
1: written material that has been bowdlerized [syn: bowdlerisation]
2: the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to
be indecent [syn: bowdlerisation]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Bowdlerize \Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an
English physician, who published an expurgated edition of
Shakespeare in 1818.]
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts
considered offensive.
It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones
. . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly
intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison.
-- Bowd`ler*i*za"tion, n. -- Bowd"ler*ism, n.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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