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expurgate something from something to cleanse something by removing something. (Often refers to editing objectionable material from written or broadcast material.) They expurgated the most graphic passages from the novel. We will expurgate the offensive matter from the article. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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When bias and sensitivity reviewers know that they can no longer censor and expurgate behind closed doors; when publishers must expect to sell their books to millions of individual teachers, not two or three powerful state school boards; when state school officials lose their power over the content of textbooks; when the public is informed about threats to intellectual freedom that is when the reign of the language police will end. Out of sheer curiosity I re-examined 1 Timothy 2:8-15 and was delighted to discover that: (1) the eighth verse is still what it used to be/and which we would all be well advised to ponder); (2) the rest of the passage has not yet been re-written to expurgate Paul's insistent "I," and that (3) Galatians 3:2-28 is, at this point in time, still intact. On the Friday before it was due, the Security Council agreed that the UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors would get the copies first, in order to expurgate them. |
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