How To Use expurgation In A Sentence
- Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like. Lionel: We Are Our Memories
- On the other hand, Atrios explaining "Why We Say 'F***' a Lot" (expurgation most definitely not in the original) fares far less well at Wood's hands. Angry, uncivil liberal bloggers
- The epic has been the object of adaptation, interpolation, reinterpretation and expurgation by a number of retellers, each seeking to reflect what he saw as relevant to his time.
- In concern of the controversy caused by the expurgation of plane geometry in the new high school math textbook, we spend one year penetrating deeply in this area.
- There be also books which are partly useful and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Areopagitica
- Believe me, the secret traitor will not dare to absent himself from an expurgation so solemn, lest his very absence should be matter of suspicion. The Talisman
- Suzman says the letter in the novel is an expurgation of how he wished he could have been with his mother. The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman
- : -- "In Cardani de Subtilitate et de Varietate libris passim latet anguis in herba et indiget expurgatione Ecclesiasticæ limæ. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
- The evidence of the Duke of Rothsay in expurgation, as it was termed, of The Fair Maid of Perth
- We know from medieval records and diaries that such threats to purity were carefully categorized and rules given for their expurgation.
