bowdlerisation's Usage Examples:

Unusually, the phrase is not a bowdlerisation; "Fanny Adams" arrived in 1860s naval slang to deplore unliked meat.

and editor of the Family Shakespeare (1818), inspiration of the term bowdlerisation Thomas Bowdler the Younger (1782-1856), Church of England priest and.

Bowdlerisation The schools project also explains Sharp's bowdlerisation of some of the song texts, which, at least.

nineteenth-century children's books, in one of the clearest cases of bowdlerisation in nursery rhymes.

Thomas Bowdler, after whom this type of treatment came to be known as bowdlerisation.

In the early and mid-20th centuries this was a form of bowdlerisation, concerned with some of the more violent elements of nursery rhymes.

translated earlier as meaning, 'peculiar odour', this possibly is a bowdlerisation.

1996 for his translation of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, which corrected the bowdlerisation and unfaithfulness of previous translators, such as Robert Bly (1967).

gratuitously coarse and offensive plays ever presented" and that Burnand's bowdlerisation of the crux of the plot had produced a piece "equally inoffensive and.

It was changed—possibly through bowdlerisation—to sooty parrot by the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU).

Elgar was unable to resist the suggested bowdlerisation, and in the ten years after the premiere the work was given at the Three.

Volume 5 of Tales ' Sketches by the Ettrick Shepherd, but the extensive bowdlerisation and theological censorship in particular suggest publisher's timidity.

inferior to Hazlitt's edition, and further disfigured by a good deal of bowdlerisation.

newspaper in Ireland", he was disappointed by what he perceived as the bowdlerisation of the Sinn Féin message.

however the final scene was cut from many broadcasts "in a superb act of bowdlerisation, thus rendering the clip exactly the same as every other slickly produced.

Jenner claims that some bowdlerisation had occurred in the translation, e.

Synonyms:

writing; written material; bowdlerization; piece of writing;

Antonyms:

inactivity;