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- noun Plural form of
expurgation .
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Please keep in mind the previously listed expurgations while listening.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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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 2007
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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 2007
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By now the speech, with various expurgations, was being read to Communist cadres and factory groups everywhere.
Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001
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By now the speech, with various expurgations, was being read to Communist cadres and factory groups everywhere.
Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001
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By now the speech, with various expurgations, was being read to Communist cadres and factory groups everywhere.
Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001
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Divergences from the text are indicated in the footnotes, and I have made a few, perhaps unnecessary, expurgations.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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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, 69 that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909
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Exhibition, with expurgations and reservations, of course, but an exhibition!
A Comedy of Masks A Novel Arthur Moore 1909
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Public opinion regarding Persian stories and poems has been led astray by the changes of sex and the expurgations made freely by translators.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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