bowdlerization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We have had adaptations of Dickens and Scott, and even George Eliot, for children, and Bowdlerizations of the Arabian Nights and the popular fairy tales."
- "For other Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers and their editor are responsible."
- "Translator notes that for Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers are responsible."
- "Part II begins with discussions on doubling of roles, Bowdlerizations, theatre promptbooks, actor-adapters, male domination, repertory companies, copying errors in collation, and detail of methodology."
- "(re hymnal revisions - or Bowdlerizations, if you like) I believe the Episcopalians are also dropping Onward Christian Soldiers because of its militarism."
- "But just as Bowdlerizations of Shakespeare seem, from a late twentieth-century perspective, to have lost something essential to the genius of the original, so nineteenth-century alterations to The Garden of the Soul may seem to us to have damaged the integrity of Challoner’s message."
Etymology
Etymology tree English bowdlerize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English bowdlerization From bowdlerize + -ation.