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bowdlerize
verb
bowd·ler·ize ˈbōd-lə-ˌrīz 
ˈbau̇d-
ˈbau̇d- bowdlerized; bowdlerizing
1
literature : to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
bowdlerizer noun
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Few editors have achieved the notoriety of Thomas Bowdler. He was trained as a physician, but when illness prevented him from practicing medicine, he turned to warning Europeans about unsanitary conditions at French watering places. Bowdler then carried his quest for purification to literature, and in 1818 he published his Family Shakspeare [sic], a work in which he promised that "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." The sanitized volume was popular with the public of the day, but literary critics denounced his modifications of the words of the Bard. Bowdler applied his literary eraser broadly, and within 11 years of his death in 1825 the word bowdlerize was being used to refer to expurgating books or other texts.
Synonyms
Example Sentences
bowdlerize a classic novel by removing offensive language a bowdlerized version of “Gulliver's Travels” that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children
Recent Examples on the Web Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event. 
James Reston Jr., Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021 The mobs of students — and their enabling professors and administrators — renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization. Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Aug. 2017 The Bard gets bowdlerized to musical and comic effect in this touring production of the Broadway hit, in which the Bottom Brothers try to outdo that dude from Stratford-upon-Avon. Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017 Prince the raunchy sylph eventually became a Jehovah’s Witness who would bowdlerize his more explicit material in concert. John Williams, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017 Maybe there’s a kind of metaphor in there, about how young and spiky verve gets softened and bowdlerized by time spent in the world. Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 17 Apr. 2017
James Reston Jr., Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021 The mobs of students — and their enabling professors and administrators — renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization. Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Aug. 2017 The Bard gets bowdlerized to musical and comic effect in this touring production of the Broadway hit, in which the Bottom Brothers try to outdo that dude from Stratford-upon-Avon. Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017 Prince the raunchy sylph eventually became a Jehovah’s Witness who would bowdlerize his more explicit material in concert. John Williams, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017 Maybe there’s a kind of metaphor in there, about how young and spiky verve gets softened and bowdlerized by time spent in the world. Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 17 Apr. 2017 Word History
Etymology
Thomas Bowdler †1825 English editor
First Known Use
1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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