bowdlerisation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bowdlerisation
    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

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

   Syn: bowdlerization, expurgation.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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