Definition of Bowdlerising

1. Verb. (present participle of bowdlerise) ¹

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Definition of Bowdlerising

1. bowdlerise [v] - See also: bowdlerise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowdlerising

bow windows
bow wood
bow wow
bow wows
bowab
bowable
bowabs
bowat
bowats
bowbent
bowdacious
bowdlerisation
bowdlerise
bowdlerised
bowdlerises
bowdlerising (current term)
bowdlerization
bowdlerizations
bowdlerize
bowdlerized
bowdlerizer
bowdlerizers
bowdlerizes
bowdlerizing
bowed
bowed down(p)
bowed out
bowed stringed instrument
bowed tendon
bowel

Literary usage of Bowdlerising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"bowdlerising" is seldom less justified of its works than when it here prevents readers from appreciating the curious and universal humanity of Shakespeare's ..."

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