#170 bowdlerize/bowdlerise

bowdlerize/bowdlerise- to remove passages of words regarded as indecent from a play, novel, etc.

- C19 after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) English editor who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare

Later, when the novel appeared in book form, the Comstocks began an action to have it suppressed, and forced the publisher to bowdlerize it.

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