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Answer for the clue "Censorship in the form of prudish expurgation ", 10 letters:
bowdlerism

Word definitions for bowdlerism in dictionaries

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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 ...

Usage examples of bowdlerism.

He carefully formulated the most genteel battle cry in the history of bowdlerism.