expurgation
expurgation · expurgations
The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansingThe act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
More definitions
- the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
Translations
4 languagesForms
plural: expurgations| Singular | expurgation |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work:castration
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedexpurgate
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable