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Definition of Expurgations
1. expurgation [n] - See also: expurgation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgations
Literary usage of Expurgations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard by Gilbert Murray (1911)
"... ILIAD AS A TRADITIONAL BOOK I. THE expurgations : THE HOMERIC SPIRIT ' As for
these passages and all others of the sort, wo will beg Homer and the other ..."
2. The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production by George Haven Putnam (1906)
"expurgations in the Roman Index, 1624-1640. The Roman Indexes, with the exceptions
of that of ... expurgations ..."
3. Chapters from the Religious History of Spain Connected with the Inquisition by Henri-Charles Lea (1890)
"184); or in the list of expurgations of his Commentaries on the City of God, ...
15)—expurgations for the most part borrowed from the Roman Index ..."
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