Expurgation [noun]
Definition of Expurgation:
elimination, removal
Sentence/Example of Expurgation:
Even as late as the year 1825, a Spanish standard author could not be republished without expurgation.
Perhaps it is too much to ask for complete typographical expurgation of our libraries.
It was he too who had the privilege of witnessing the expurgation of the Islands of the excommunications and admonitions of Rome.
To do that would require a complete expurgation of the journal.
In their work no later expurgation could cleanse away that which their work could not contain.
We cannot find expurgation in failure to accomplish a purpose.
The genius of Homer, not later expurgation, accounts for his reticence.
So purification was "Apolline," and what was Apolline was safe from Apolline expurgation.
That which seems to me much the most probable is the theory of Expurgation.
Plato's own method of exegesis consists quite simply of expurgation.