Expurgatory
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adjective.
Of or relating to expurgation or an expurgator.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Serving to purify from anything obnoxious, offensive, or erroneous.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
adjective.
See Index Expurgatorius, under
Index
.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
adjective.
serving to
expurgate
Word Usage
"It was even inserted in the expurgatory index of the Council of Trent, on the false supposition that heretics had corrupted it."
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Words with the same meaning
cleansing
purifying