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  • noun Plural form of expurgation.

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Examples

  • Please keep in mind the previously listed expurgations while listening.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • By now the speech, with various expurgations, was being read to Communist cadres and factory groups everywhere.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • By now the speech, with various expurgations, was being read to Communist cadres and factory groups everywhere.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • By now the speech, with various expurgations, was being read to Communist cadres and factory groups everywhere.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • 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

  • 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

  • Exhibition, with expurgations and reservations, of course, but an exhibition!

    A Comedy of Masks A Novel Arthur Moore 1909

  • 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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