bowdlerisation

noun

Etymology

From bowdlerise + -ation.

Definitions

  1. The action or instance of bowdlerising

    The action or instance of bowdlerising; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of bowdlerisation.

    • We began to debunk, with the aid of such Bowdlerisations of Freud as now trickled though, human motive, and learned to diagnose our mental discomforts as repressions and inhibitions—an accomplishment which gave me a good deal of relief.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bowdlerisation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA