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Bowdlerization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of bowdlerization. alt-of, countable, uncountable

    "We have had adaptations of Dickens and Scott, and even George Eliot, for children, and Bowdlerizations of the Arabian Nights and the popular fairy tales."

  3. 3
    the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent wordnet
  4. 4
    written material that has been bowdlerized wordnet

Etymology

From bowdlerize + -ation.

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