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Bowdlerisation

noun

Written material that has been bowdlerized. Synonym: bowdlerization.

The act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent. Synonym: bowdlerization.

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... glittering sword, wherewith at one blow they were all killed and the fire consumed them.[FN415] There remained a few bones and skulls which God allowed to bide unconsumed by the fire, as a memorial of this punishment. In the Hakluyt Society's bowdlerisation we read of the Tumbez Islanders being "very vicious, many of them committing the abominable offence" (p. 24); also, "If by the advice of the Devil any Indian commit the abominable crime, it is thought little of and they call him a woman." In chapters lii. ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

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Words linked to "Bowdlerisation" : castration, writing, written material, bowdlerise, expurgation, piece of writing