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Antonyms for expurgate

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ek-sper-geyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛk spərˌgeɪt

Definition of expurgate

Origin :
  • 1620s, back-formation from expurgation or from Latin expurgatus, past participle of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify" (see expurgation). Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15c.), from Middle French expurger.
  • verb censor, cut
Example sentences :
  • There is not the slightest reason to regret this thing or to expurgate it.
  • Extract from : « Visions and Revisions » by John Cowper Powys
  • If they were not there, les intellectuels of Athens could not expurgate them.
  • Extract from : « The World of Homer » by Andrew Lang
  • It is admitted that the poets did not in the same way "expurgate" the "Cyclic" epics.
  • Extract from : « The World of Homer » by Andrew Lang
  • Dickens, as we have also stated, consented to expurgate that novel.
  • Extract from : « The Victorian Age in Literature » by G. K. Chesterton
  • His principal object was to expurgate it from impurities and to supersede it by what he considered a more edifying text.
  • Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
  • Therefore the editor undertook to expurgate the epigrammatists, especially Catullus and Martial.
  • Extract from : « An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams » by Pierre Nicole
  • Homer himself found such deeds in the tradition; and though he regards them with horror, he cannot expurgate them.
  • Extract from : « The World of Homer » by Andrew Lang
  • The dreamer sees a worshipper—his wife—enter, to palliate or expurgate her soul of some ugly stain.
  • Extract from : « The Browning Cyclopdia » by Edward Berdoe
  • His speech was two or three words longer, but they are inappropriate at the end of a chapter, and I expurgate.
  • Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable

Synonyms for expurgate

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