'Bowdlerization' definitions:
Definition of 'bowdlerization'
(from WordNet)
noun
Written material that has been bowdlerized [syn: bowdlerization, bowdlerisation]
noun
The act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent [syn: bowdlerization, bowdlerisation]
Definition of 'Bowdlerization'
From: GCIDE
- Bowdlerize \Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.
- Syn: bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
- It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison. [1913 Webster] -- {Bowd`ler*i*za"tion}, n. -- {Bowd"ler*ism}, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'bowdlerization'
From: GCIDE
- bowdlerization \bowdlerization\ n. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
- Syn: bowdlerisation, expurgation. [WordNet 1.5]