What's the difference between bowdlerization and expurgation?

Bowdlerization


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The appointment of Archant chief John Fry, to take over from Tim Bowdler, has been viewed as a positive move as the markets deteriorate.
  • (2) Without a trace of triumphalism, Enders says that Bowdler has now "apologised for treating me like a lunatic".
  • (3) Besides the well know radiographic features of hypophosphatasia some less well known, rare or 'new' ones such as, 1. spurs of the long bones (Bowdler sign), 2. distal femoral central metaphyseal defects and epiphyseal defects, 3.
  • (4) In addition to the well known radiographic features such as generalized decrease in the size of ossified bones with some bones not ossified at all, other changes observed included: 1) marked variability in the amount of bone ossification; 2) variability between patients as to which bones were most severely affected; 3) unusually dense, round, flattened, butterfly shaped; and sagittally clefted vertebral bodies; 4) variability in femoral shape including "chromosome" like, "campomelic" like, and shortening with or without metaphyseal cupping or irregularities; 5) osteochondral projections (Bowdler spurs) of the midshaft of the fibula and ulna.
  • (5) Tim Bowdler, the now retired head of Johnston Press, disagreed.

Expurgation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One approach is less aggressive, whether as to the expurgation or excision of the surrounding area of the breast; in certain cases, treatment may be combined with radiation and the surgery minimized.
  • (2) Over a period of seven months, we evaluated the effect of this maneuver for 125 consecutive patients by means of (1) a report on the patient's reactions, completed by a nurse after she reviewed the record with the patient; (2) a report by the physician stating whether he had expurgated the record for patient use, and recording his observations of patient and family reaction; (3) a questionnaire mailed to patients after discharge.
  • (3) the clearing of the theoretical field through expurgating all pre-scientific ideologies jeopardizing the growth of scientific concepts; and b) a positive-constructive one, or the actual building up of a science through the production of the formal-abstract object, using ontically indeterminate raw material.
  • (4) The film's absence from our screens is almost as long as the 30-year ban on Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was, of course, always available in an expurgated version.
  • (5) Thus, it was considered that axillary expurgation was needed, but that excision of nodes in the cerebrum and cerebellum was not essential in every case.

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