It is a tone implying an authorized and expurgated edition of the speaker's emotional odyssey.
"Command"
William McFee
Minturno likened the purgation to the physician's method, while Speroni pointed out that pity and fear, holding men in bondage, were properly to be expurgated.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
It was magnificently composed; the technique was dazzling; but the face had been-well, expurgated.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton