Associations to the word «Bowdlerization»

Noun

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Wiktionary

BOWDLERIZATION, noun. The action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.

Dictionary definition

BOWDLERIZATION, noun. Written material that has been bowdlerized.
BOWDLERIZATION, noun. The act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope