Meanings of expurgation in inglés

The other omissions are mainly by way of expurgation.

A great number of States have expressly instructed their senators to vote for this expurgation.

Hence the expurgation of masterpieces that an artist might appear as commonplace a bourgeois as his commentator.

He translated himself literally, and no expurgation was needed to make the translation suitable for the most innocent eyes.

An expurgation room, intended for ablutions and purifications, descending to a subterranean reservoir, occupied an angle of the courtyard.

Suzman says the letter in the novel is an expurgation of how he wished he could have been with his mother.

A very great majority of the States have elected senators and representatives to Congress, upon the express ground of favoring this expurgation.

He commanded Cromwell's regiment at the Battle of Dunbar, and rendered service particularly acceptable to him in the second expurgation of Parliament.

But if this be a taint which requires expurgation, it would be desirable to begin by expurgating the morning and evening lessons.

The bundle needed much expurgation and was full of Greek nonsense, at the head of the chapters, which has all been cut out.

He had collected about two hundred and fifty rhymes, had made a literal-notmetrical-translationand had issued them in book form without expurgation.

Praise, then, be awarded to all instructors of youth who will promote such expurgation from the classics as will blot out their immorality!

This coarseness is, in fact, so pervasive that expurgation is made extremely difficult to any one who would preserve some fair remnant of the original.

Believe me, the secret traitor will not dare to absent himself from an expurgation so solemn, lest his very absence should be matter of suspicion.

Literary feeling is jealous, no doubt justly, on general grounds, of expurgations.

Expurgation is a great handicap to many playwrights, and the radio audience is the finicky and sensitive in the world.