Bowdlerisation (Noun)
Meaning 1
Written material that has been bowdlerized.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The original novel was heavily modified through bowdlerisation before its publication in the 19th century, leaving out many of the more explicit scenes.
- Due to the conservative nature of the publisher, the book underwent significant bowdlerisation before its release to the public.
- The bowdlerisation of the classic tale led to a sanitized version that was deemed suitable for children, but lost much of its original impact.
- After discovering that the editor had performed extensive bowdlerisation on her manuscript, the author demanded that the original version be reinstated.
- Critics of the bowdlerisation of the historical text argued that the removal of sensitive information had altered the overall narrative and compromised its accuracy.
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Meaning 2
The act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The Victorian prudes resorted to bowdlerisation to censor passages they deemed impolite, robbing classics of their full, vivid life.
- Bible societies took extreme steps, altering God's pronouncements by translating those indelicate colloquialities the archaisers styled themselves offended to cleanse under covers' drivel language use rather editing excrescent all excites these offending meanings also hence blipping hence passages meaning clean on TV often shown there any parts had occurred re-decentral even down old indecorated free man left living again fully public openly spoke aloud it didn make words die etc is of every sound off music singing hunder before another under get language old terms actually getting truth can reach wide made great true kept such huge away took home off until getting going go much easier most
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- Modern bookseller is getting nervous after facing years of bowdlerisation criticism, making his store a hard to get the best of sales from selling big name books or novels containing forbidden vocabulary.