unvulgarize
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unvulgarize (third-person singular simple present unvulgarizes, present participle unvulgarizing, simple past and past participle unvulgarized)
- (transitive) To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unvulgarize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)