Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To purge away; cleanse by purging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To purge away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
purge away.
Etymologies
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Compare Old French espurgier. See expurgate.
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Examples
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You can't expurge mental prejudice from judicial opinions any more than you can from the reasonings of theologians and atheists ....
The American Judiciary Simeon E. Baldwin 1883
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I mean honestly I don't have any problem with Jews, but I do have a problem with the ignorance of those who comfort themselves with the propaganda spewed out by the Israeli government and then expurge this same propaganda onto those of us who aren't so easily brainwashed.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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