'excoriating' in Literary Theory: An Introduction | Bookmarker

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(verb) to wear off the skin of; abrade / (verb) to censure scathingly

Yet, if it excoriated the bland assumptions of a Sir Walter Raleigh on one level, it was also in complicity with them on another

—p.37 The Rise of English (17) by Terry Eagleton

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