English
Alternative spellings
bowdlerise
Etymology
From w:Thomas Bowdler|Thomas Bowdler who in 1818 published a censored version of Shakespeare, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
Pronunciation
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Verb
en-verb|bowdleriz|ing
- To remove those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
#: The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.
#* 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 455,
#*: His critics take alarm only when it becomes apparent that he would bowdlerize Homer and exclude from his state the great tragedians.
Translations
Portuguese: [1] censurar, [2] expurgar
Derived terms
bowdlerism
bowdlerization
bowdlerizer
See also
censor
expunge
expurgate
Category:English eponyms
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