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unbowdlerized


verb (used with object), bowd·ler·ized, bowd·ler·iz·ing.

  1. to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

verb

  1. (tr) to remove passages or words regarded as indecent from (a play, novel, etc); expurgate

v.1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, in which, according to his frontispiece, “nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.” Related: Bowdlerized; bowdlerizing.

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