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Definition of Bowdlerised
1. bowdlerise [v] - See also: bowdlerise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowdlerised
Literary usage of Bowdlerised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence edited by Richard Halkett (1888)
"With what a bound my heart's blood through me sped, As on the gate I " Keats's
Cottage " read ! GJY The Spectator. AN UN-bowdlerised BOCCACCIO. ..."
2. Fireside Studies by Henry Kingsley (1876)
"... the flies can be put on one plate and the butter on another: both are capable
of being bowdlerised; a bowdlerised Smollett would be rather dull reading. ..."
3. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"... and which were published twenty years later in their original form by Gamier,
but were " bowdlerised" in subsequent editions by Cousin himself, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... all prose romances the most rich in life and the most artistic in construction—that
a bowdlerised version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Was Shakspeare altogether clean, at least un-bowdlerised ? Were our old dramatists,
then returning to favour, manuals for the young ? Did not our young men, ..."
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