expurgatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From expūrgō + -tiō. === Noun === expūrgātiō f (genitive expūrgātiōnis); third declension justification, vindication, excuse cleansing; expurgation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “expurgatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “expurgatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.