expurgation

• “For example, if you’re asked if you’ve ever been convicted, when do you still have to say “yes” (because it * did* happen), and when can you answer no since the expurgation is supposed to let you pretend it never happened?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » “Down the Memory Hole” Speech Restrictions, Supported by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

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

  The Guardian: The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman

• “Upon a closer investigation, however, it became evident that the task of expurgation would prove to be a most formidable one, and that a great mass of extraneous matter would require to be inserted in explanation of motives which were wholly personal and therefore to be omitted from the book.”

  Fictionaut: Movie Night

• “Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like.”

  Lionel: We Are Our Memories

• “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.”

  The Talisman

• “The evidence of the Duke of Rothsay in expurgation, as it was termed, of”

  The Fair Maid of Perth

• “On the other hand, Atrios explaining "Why We Say 'F***' a Lot" (expurgation most definitely not in the original) fares far less well at Wood's hands.”

  Angry, uncivil liberal bloggers

• “The Colonel decided to continue without expurgation.”

  Soul

• “This doctrine, then, of the expurgation of the intellect to qualify it for dealing with truth is comprised in three refutations: the refutation of the philosophies; the refutation of the demonstrations; and the refutation of the natural human reason.”

  The Great Instauration

• “According to Theotormon's negative theology, in other words, all of nature's seeming attractions can only be distractions; and since he has learned to see his passions as aspects of natural rather than spiritual being, he must constantly "cleanse" himself via acts of self-expurgation and penance.”

  Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_

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