Definition of "expunction" [ex•punc•tion]

• The act of expunging or the condition of being expunged: expunction of the records of the crime. (noun)

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• "The fact of the conviction, the fact of the pardon, the fact of the expunction (if that is the procedure used) are all public acts of the government."
• "The fact of the conviction, the fact of the pardon, the fact of the expunction if that is the procedure used are all public acts of the government."
• "By this process the essence of two or more old comedies is extracted; their characters and plots amalgamated; and the whole "rectified" by the careful expunction of equivocal passages."