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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 Sophistíªs 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 Homer and exclude from his state the great tragedians.
Translations: 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."
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