Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who expurgates or purifies; specifically, one who expurgates a book.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who expurgates or purifies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
expurgates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages
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Examples
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But when Herman and Verman set to 't the record must be no more than a few fragments left by the expurgator.
Penrod 1914
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Kyrie, expurgator scelerum et largitor gratitæ; quæsumus propter nostrasoffensas noli nos relinquere, O consolator dolentis animæ, eleyson (ed. Burntisland, 929).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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But when Herman and Verman set to 't the record must be no more than a few fragments left by the expurgator.
Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907
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Whoever he was, he can have little claim to be regarded as the original designer; he was rather employed as an expurgator; for these plates are certainly copies of the two sets of plates invented and engraved by Hogarth himself in 1726.
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