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An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization, or censorship by political correctness is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media.
Expurgation is also known as bowdlerization, fig-leaf edition or censorship by political correctness. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ...
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Censor bars, also known as black bars, are a basic form of text, photography, and video censorship in which "sensitive" information or images are occluded by black, gray, or white rectangular boxes.
A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by deliberately misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo word or phrase to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics.
A censure is a formal statement of disapproval issued by a group, such as a legislative body. [1] [4]Presidential censure is not explicitly provided for in the Constitution of the United States, which does not even use the term "censure".
Subsequent editions of the Index were more sophisticated; they graded authors according to their supposed degree of toxicity, and they marked specific passages for expurgation rather than condemning entire books. [30]
Thomas Bowdler was born on 11 July 1754, [2] in Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler (c. 1719–1785), a banker of substantial fortune, [3] and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton (d. 1797), the daughter of Sir John Cotton, 6th Baronet of Conington, Huntingdonshire.