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unexpurgated (adj) – (of a book, text, etc) not amended or censored by removing potentially offensive material.

Source : The Free Dictionary

Etymology : 1882, from un- (1) “not” + past participle of expurgate.

Etymology of expurgate : 1620s, “to purge” (in anatomy), back-formation from expurgation or from Latin expurgatus, past participle of expurgare “to cleanse out, purge, purify.” Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15th century), from Middle French expurger. Meaning “remove (something offensive or erroneous) from” is from 1670s.

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