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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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When books were delivered to the tribunals for expurgation, the habitual delays must have been exasperating.
She has a rather disheartening editorial about the expurgation from educational textbooks anything that could possibly give offense to people.
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.
In the meeting which followed the expurgation of the resolutions, the organizers of the movement lost control.
I first considered printing the exchange my friend and I had, but quickly realized that expurgation would rob it of its meaning.
Hence the expurgation of masterpieces that an artist might appear as commonplace a bourgeois as his commentator.

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