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verb (used with object), ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing.
1.
to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
2.
to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
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expurgation
early 15c., "a cleansing from impurity," from L. expurgationem, from expurgare "cleanse out, purify," from ex- "out" + purgare "to purge." Sense of "remove objectionable passages from a literary work" first recorded in English 1670s.
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