expurgation

This gives the total process the name random coding with expurgation.

The edited version, being broadcast tonight, doesn't lose much in the expurgation.

Unlike the others, she actually said the word "bleep"; it wasn't a Conspiracy expurgation.

This expurgation process completes the proof of Theorem 1.

This was your expurgation, not mine.

The latter method is called expurgation.

I grew to think that to do this would be mind-saving, a catharsis, and, in a strange way, an expurgation of a double grief.

Expurgation, also known as a "fig-leaf edition"

Expurgation is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive, usually from an artistic work.

The Beatles' album Yesterday And Today remains arguably the most infamous example of record cover expurgation.

Statute Law Revision Acts are sometimes referred to as expurgation Acts.

It is not clear whether Coats carried out an initial expurgation prior to the editorial discretion exercised by Rhodes James.

(Members edition, without expurgation)

He ordered that the Jews of Aragon to submit their books to Dominican censors for expurgation.

(three asterisks in a row), a commonly used expurgation of part of any expletive, as in f***ing.

"Neither thy beguiling form nor thy undoubted wiles shall forestall thy expurgation!"

The necessity for expurgation is illustrated by the reaction of an Oxford contemporary who, when told that no diaries from that period existed, said, "Thank God!"

Whoever ordered the expurgation, for whatever reason, history demands that we examine the questions churned up by this surreptitious removal of the symbol of the ultimate in leak-plugging.

Below was the castle, with the priestess lying like Sleeping Beauty within it, awaiting the kiss to restore her to consciousness, except that that was an expurgation.

Subsequent editions of the Index were more sophisticated; they graded authors according to their supposed degree of toxicity, and they marked specific passages for expurgation rather than condemning entire books.

During the most active period of the expurgation of Hebrew books under the Inquisition in Italy Dominico's services were in great demand; and first in Venice (1578-92?)

Bowdler felt it would be worthwhile to publish an edition which might be used in a family whose father was not a sufficiently "circumspect and judicious reader" to accomplish this expurgation himself.

His condemnation of 'Forever Amber (film)' caused producer William Perlberg to publicly refuse to "Expurgation the film to placate the Roman Catholic Church".

It is best known today because it was one of the books spared during the expurgation of Don Quixote's library in Chapter 6 of Part I of Don Quixote.