different between mundificant vs mundificatory

English

From Latin mundificans, p.pr. of mundificare (“to make clean”), from mundus (“clean”) + -ficare (“to make”) (in comparative). See -fy.

mundificant (comparative more mundificant, superlative most mundificant)

mundificant (plural mundificants)

mundificatory (comparative more mundificatory, superlative most mundificatory)

Of or pertaining to cleansing
- 1899 — Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class [1].
  Not that the results of her attention to household matters, of a decorative and mundificatory character, are not pleasing to the sense of men trained in middle-class proprieties; but the taste to which these effects of household adornment and tidiness appeal is a taste which has been formed under the selective guidance of a canon of propriety that demands just these evidences of wasted effort.

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