Here his pent-up self-repugnance, his growing impulse to expurgate the duplicities of his life, had found a minor outlet in the sudden religious faith that had possessed him after his half-hour of doubts.
"Gargoyles"
Ben Hecht
Therefore the editor undertook to expurgate the epigrammatists, especially Catullus and Martial.
"An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams"
Pierre Nicole
The convention suspended them provisionally, in order to expurgate and reorganize them, not daring to destroy them at once.
"History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814"
F. A. M. Miguet