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purification
English
Etymology
From Old French purificacion, from Latin purificatio
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pj????f??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
purification (countable and uncountable, plural purifications)
- The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
- A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
- (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin p?rific?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py.?i.fi.ka.sj??/
Noun
purification f (plural purifications)
- purification
Related terms
- purifier
Further reading
- “purification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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purging
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)d???
Verb
purging
- present participle of purge
Noun
purging (plural purgings)
- The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing, particularly:
- (chiefly politics) A removal of undesirable people.
- (chiefly chemistry) The cleansing of a device by flushing it with water, steam, or some other liquid or gas.
- The removal of waste from the human body, particularly:
- (premodern medicine) The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomitting, etc.
- (medicine) The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
- (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
- 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:
- He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings...
- 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:
- (obsolete and rare) That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
- (obsolete and rare) Synonym of purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.
Synonyms
- (removal of undesirables): purge; see also witchhunt
- (defecation): See Thesaurus:defecation
- (vomiting): See vomiting and Thesaurus:regurgitate
- (thing purged): See blood, sin, Thesaurus:vomit, and Thesaurus:feces
Translations
References
- "purging, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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