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The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

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  1. n. The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
  2. n. the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
  3. The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. Milton.
  4. The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purificationfrom anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. Milton.
  5. n. the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work