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Meaning of "expurgation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXPURGATION

expurgation  [ˌɛkspəˈɡeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXPURGATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Expurgation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXPURGATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Expurgation

Expurgation is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive, usually from an artistic work. Bowdlerization is a pejorative term for the practice, particularly the expurgation of lewd material from books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in order to make them more suitable, in his opinion, for women and children. He similarly edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A fig-leaf edition is such a bowdlerized text, deriving from the practice of covering the genitals of nudes in classical and Renaissance statues and paintings with fig leaves. The radio or Wal-Mart version of a song or album is a term in the modern music industry for works whose lyrics have been edited to comply with the content policies of broadcasters and retailers.

Definition of expurgation in the English dictionary

The definition of expurgation in the dictionary is amendment by removing offensive material.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXPURGATION


aggregation
ˌæɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən
allegation
ˌælɪˈɡeɪʃən
centrifugation
ˌsɛntrɪfjʊˈɡeɪʃən
congregation
ˌkɒŋɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən
conjugation
ˌkɒndʒʊˈɡeɪʃən
delegation
ˌdɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən
elongation
ˌiːlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən
homologation
hɒˌmɒləˈɡeɪʃən
interrogation
ɪnˌtɛrəˈɡeɪʃən
investigation
ɪnˌvɛstɪˈɡeɪʃən
irrigation
ˌɪrɪˈɡeɪʃən
ligation
laɪˈɡeɪʃən
litigation
ˌlɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən
mitigation
ˌmɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən
navigation
ˌnævɪˈɡeɪʃən
obligation
ˌɒblɪˈɡeɪʃən
prolongation
ˌprəʊlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən
propagation
ˌprɒpəˈɡeɪʃən
relegation
ˌrɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən
segregation
ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXPURGATION

expropriation
expropriator
exptl
expugn
expugnable
expugnation
expulse
expulsion
expulsion order
expulsive
expunct
expunction
expunge
expunger
expurgate
expurgated
expurgator
expurgatorial
expurgatory
expurge

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXPURGATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of expurgation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «expurgation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXPURGATION

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The translations of expurgation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «expurgation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

廓清
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

expurgo
570 millions of speakers

English

expurgation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

expurgation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

expurgation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

expurgation
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

expurgo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শোধন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

expurgation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Expurgasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Säuberung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

expurgation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

expurgation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Expurgation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bỏ bớt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

expurgation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उद्रेक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sansür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

epurazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

expurgation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

expurgation
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

epurare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

expurgation
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zuivering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

expurgation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

expurgation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of expurgation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPURGATION»

The term «expurgation» is normally little used and occupies the 139.267 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPURGATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «expurgation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «expurgation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about expurgation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXPURGATION»

Discover the use of expurgation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to expurgation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hard Justice: Expurgation
The third book of the trilogy Expurgation is the continuation of seeking out the killers of Sam Murphy's family.
Martin H. Petry, 2009
2
Intellectual Freedom Manual
Rights. Expurgating library materials is a violation of the Library Bill of Rights. Expurgation as defined by this interpretation includes any deletion, excision, alteration, editing, or obliteration of any part(s) of books or other library resources by the ...
American Library Association. Office for Intellectual Freedom, 2010
3
Constructing Space-time Codes Via Expurgation and Set ...
When an outer trellis is available, our results generalize the super-orthogonal codes by finding new code supersets and corresponding set partitioning, resulting in improved coding gain.
Mohammad Janani, 2006
4
Encyclopedia of Censorship
The next recorded expurgation of Shakespeare was carried out by Sir William D' Avenant, who held a monopoly of licensed plays in London, in 1660. In what was basically a sop to Puritan interests, he trimmed seven of the plays with the ...
Green, Nicholas J. Karolides, 2009
5
Intimate With Walt: Whitmans Conversataions With Horace Traubel
Expurgation. A perusal of the reviews of the early Leaves editions shows what tremendous pressure Whitman was under to retreat from his avant-garde ramparts. The Boston Christian Examiner said his work “teems with abominations .
Horace Traubel, Gary Schmidgall, 2001
6
The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church ...
J_. From. Polemics. to. Censorship: The. Development. of. the. Expurgation. of. Written. Culture. As HAS ALREADY BEEN DEMONSTRATED, the discussion of the index was, from the outset, linked to attempts to apply the principle of ...
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, 2007
7
Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Latin and Greek
Expurgation has a long history in the reception of Greek comedy, especially in a pedagogic context, and can be traced as far back as the arrival of Greek texts into the West in the fifteenth century.1 In the English-speaking world, it is particularly ...
S. J. Harrison, Stephen Harrison, Christopher Stray, 2012
8
Code annoté de la Cour pénale internationale, 2008
0 Règle 81-2: Restrictions à l'obligation de communiquer — Autorisation d' expurger — Critères applicables — Catégories d'informations susceptibles d' expurgation: identité des témoins potentiels — Toute expurgation doit être motivée par la ...
Cyril Laucci, 2012
9
Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula
Indices of Sandoval (1612), Zapata (1632), and Sotomayor (1640). The expurgation of works in Spain became a somewhat liberalizing alternative to the total prohibition practiced by the Roman Inquisition: it legalized the reading of certain ...
Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, Janet Pérez, 1993
10
How the West was Won: Essays on the Literary Imagination, ...
In general, expurgation was presumed to be carried out according to the Index Rules, or else it had to be based upon pre-existent censurae, with a preference for those kept in the archive of the Congregation for the Index in Rome. However  ...
Willemien Otten, Arie Johan Vanderjagt, Hent De Vries, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXPURGATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term expurgation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Books on Wheels: 5th Dimension Books and Unbound: Sin …
... sci-fi as wartime paperbacks for soldiers' pockets to the wild story of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 expurgation, every tale is riveting. «Austin Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
Mindy Newell: 232.7° Celsius
What is both ironically amusing and extremely aggravating to me is that Fahrenheit itself has been subject to expurgation, censoring and ... «Comicmix.com, Jul 15»
3
Film review: The Look of Silence
Decades of propaganda have encouraged the view that it was a heroic episode in Indonesian history, a necessary expurgation of undesirable ... «City A.M., Jun 15»
4
Game of Thrones Season 5 Spoilers: What Does It Really Feel Like …
For Medieval Europe burning at the stake was about the expurgation of evil. The body, plagued with demons, is burnt and made clean. «iDigitalTimes.com, Jun 15»
5
Complete collection of Grimms' fairy tales a beautiful success
It is a delight to read these magic short pieces, especially in their original form, free of the carnage of revision, censorship and expurgation that ... «Wichita Eagle, Jun 15»
6
PEACETALK: Matching the Peace Commission with Parity of …
This narrative of the Passion which the historical figure of Jesus Christ experienced is, among Catholics, expurgation and spiritual cleansing. «Minda News, Apr 15»
7
Chicago Fire Home Opener Goes Awry
Songs can be removed from listening devices, films paused for eternity, but for a game of soccer, such expurgation is less an option. «Gapers Block, Mar 15»
8
'Everyone Must Reject Giuliani's Comment'
In the Western media's version of the ritual of expurgation, it starts by denouncing the person or persons who spoke an unwelcome truth. «National Review Online, Feb 15»
9
China's “New Normal” of Sharpened Control
The expurgation does not stop at the politically sensitive. A television drama on China's first female emperor was recently pulled simply for ... «China Digital Times, Feb 15»
10
[Opinion] Are we going to stand up for Charlie?
Remember the post-9/11 frenzy and the mainstream media's paranoid expurgation of “unpatriotic” criticism. The Catholic Church has, in recent ... «EUobserver, Jan 15»

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