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Definition of Bowdlerizer
1. Noun. A person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages. "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator"
Generic synonyms: Editor, Editor In Chief
Derivative terms: Bowdlerise, Bowdlerize, Expurgate
Definition of Bowdlerizer
1. Noun. One who bowdlerizes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bowdlerizer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowdlerizer
Literary usage of Bowdlerizer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1902)
"... bowdlerizer, &c.— and is rarely used save with sovereign contempt for the
process, the theory, and the man, even by those who would unhesitatingly ..."
2. Our Literary Deluge and Some of Its Deeper Waters by Francis Whiting Halsey (1902)
"... for he produces unique and curious copies of books; or the bowdlerizer, for
he aims to do public morality some service. But what benefit to his own mind ..."
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