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[Verb] | "bowd*ler*ize" | \ ˈbōd-lə-ˌrīz \
1: to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
2: to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content
Origin: 1826 ;
Thomas Bowdler †1825 English editor;
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[Verb] | "bowdlerize"
1: to remove objectionable parts from;
* e.g., " ... a bowdlerized version of Gulliver's Travels that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children "
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# 1 - { neovictorian bowdlerization:9287733 }
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[ "neovictorian bowdlerization" ]
1: Politically-correct dumbing down of the English language used to eliminate thoughts and ideas deemed offensive to identified subgroups ie. by gender/race/religion/country of origin. Derived from term originally used to refer to removal of offensive terms (e.g. "strumpet") from Shakespeare's plays by Thomas Bowdler.
* e.g., ... Only neovictorian bowdlerization can explain the current anti-intellectual view that gender/race are fluid and that all things are like all other things.
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