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bowdlerization

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14 lettersPart of speech nounSorted abdeiilnoortwzStarts with BEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent

Word origin

From bowdlerize + -ation.

Used in a sentence

  • We have had adaptations of Dickens and Scott, and even George Eliot, for children, and Bowdlerizations of the Arabian Nights and the popular fairy tales.
  • For other Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers and their editor are responsible.
  • Translator notes that for Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers are responsible.

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