Definition of Expurging

1. Verb. (present participle of expurge) ¹

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Definition of Expurging

1. expurge [v] - See also: expurge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurging

expunging
expurgate
expurgated
expurgates
expurgating
expurgation
expurgations
expurgator
expurgatorial
expurgatorious
expurgators
expurgatory
expurge
expurged
expurges
expurging
exquisite
exquisitely
exquisiteness
exquisitenesses
exquisites
exquisitive
exquisitiveness
exradio
exrerience
exsanguinate
exsanguinated
exsanguinates
exsanguinating
exsanguination

Literary usage of Expurging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"... engendering together, brought forth or perfected those catalogues and expurging indexes, that rake through the entrails of many an old good author, ..."

2. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"... "The Council of Trent and the Spanish Inquisition engendering together brought forth and perfected those catalogues and expurging indexes that rake ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... and the Spanish inquisition engendering together brought forth, or perfected those catalogues, and expurging indexes that rake through the entrails of ..."

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