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Definition of Expurging
1. expurge [v] - See also: expurge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurging
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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