It was even inserted in the expurgatory index of the Council of Trent, on the false supposition that heretics had corrupted it. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
I use the expurgatory pen with no sparing hand in preparing for the new edition of that poem. none of my the. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 247] Reference
The whole subject of expurgatory oaths was discussed, and all that could be said on either side was fully and elaborately presented. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State] Reference
It is difficult to speak of the whole system of expurgatory oaths for past conduct without a shudder at the suffering and oppression they were not only capable of effecting but often did effect. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State] Reference
It ought here to be remarked, that this mode of conviction not only concludes the party has failed in his expurgatory proof, but it is sufficient also to subject to the penalties and incapacities of the law the infant upon whose account the person has been so convicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)] Reference
They assume that the parties are guilty; they call upon the parties to establish their innocence; and declare that such innocence can only be shown in one way -- by an inquisition in the form of an expurgatory oath into the consciences of the parties. ". From Wordnik.com. [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference
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