bowdlerization

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bowdlerization
    n 1: written material that has been bowdlerized [syn:
         {bowdlerization}, {bowdlerisation}]
    2: the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to
       be indecent [syn: {bowdlerization}, {bowdlerisation}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bowdlerization \bowdlerization\ n.
   the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.

   Syn: bowdlerisation, expurgation.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bowdlerize \Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowdlerized}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Bowdlerizing}.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an
   English physician, who published an expurgated edition of
   Shakespeare in 1818.]
   To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts
   considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts;
   -- said of literary texts.

   Syn: bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut.
        [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

              It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom
              Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would
              be hardly intelligible as a tale.   --F. Harrison.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Bowd`ler*i*za"tion}, n. --
        {Bowd"ler*ism}, n.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]