The Victorians liked to bowdlerize Latin and Greek literature as they believed much of it was obscene and corrupted the young.
To bowdlerize is to remove parts of literary works. An example sentence would be: It would be offensive to bowdlerize a Shakespeare work.
Some people with strong moral beliefs bowdlerize questions and answers on this site, which they believe to be indecent. Attempts were made to bowdlerize the story to remove its references to drug addiction, which the editors thought would hurt its public appeal.
He bowdlerized my novel because he felt it was too explicit.
The editor had to bowdlerize a part of the book, because there were some inappropriate words used that weren't suitable for kids under a certain age.
ban. Also: expurgate, cut, blue-pencil, bowdlerize
To bowdlerise a piece of writing, is to edit it to make it more "suitable" for women and children - that is to change or remove sexual references and "bad" language. It is named after Thomas Bowdler, who produced "The Family Shakespeare" in 1807, to ridicule from many quarters. Using bowdlerise: Using "God!" as an exclamation was bowdlerised by replacing it with "Heavens!"
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