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What does expurgation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
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In the meeting which followed the expurgation of the resolutions, the organizers of the movement lost control.
I do not assume to say that the question of this expurgation was a leading, or a controlling point in the issue of this election.
That which seems to me much the most probable is the theory of expurgation.
We know from medieval records and diaries that such threats to purity were carefully categorized and rules given for their expurgation.
It does not appear to me that this theory of expurgation, all important as it is, can be easily understood.
Much of this theory of expurgation of the Iliad and Odyssey seems to me to rest on the assumption of.

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