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/pjˌʊrəfəkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Purification n.

The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.

The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. "When the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished."

A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Purification" Quotes from Famous Books

... among some rocky mountains, a soldier on horseback, who was at a considerable height above him on the steep side of a mountain, came rolling down above him, horse and all, by which he was so much bruised, that soon after his removal to the town of the Purification, he was seized with fainting-fits, and expired in a few days. On the news of Alvarados death being known to his fleet and army, many of the people returned to their homes with what they had received. The viceroy sent off the licentiate Maldonado to prevent confusion as much as possible, whom ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

... a purification preparatory to the sacred feasts. The vapor bath is taken in this way: "A number of poles the size of hoop-poles or less are taken, and their larger ends being set in the ground in a circle, the flexible tops are bent over and tied in the centre. This frame work is then covered with ...

— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

... the King of Scotland, to Haningo, son of the King of Norway. The perils of a winter sea-passage in ships of the olden time were recognised by an Act of the reign of James III. of Scotland, prohibiting all navigation "frae the feast of St. Simon's Day and Jude unto the feast of the Purification of our Lady, ...

— A Bundle of Ballads • Various

... be reminded—it was not sufficient to renew the exhausted oxygen; the complete purification of the air required the absorption of the carbonic acid, exhaled from the lungs. For nearly 12 hours the atmosphere had been gradually becoming more and more charged with this deleterious gas, produced from the combustion of the blood by the inspired oxygen. The Captain ...

— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne

... charged with putrid vegetable matter and animalculae, would be very likely to generate fevers and dysenteries if taken into the stomach without purification. It should therefore be thoroughly boiled, and all the scum removed from the surface as it rises; this clarifies it, and by mixing powdered charcoal with it the disinfecting process is perfected. Water may also be purified by placing a piece of alum in the end of a ...

— The Prairie Traveler - A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions • Randolph Marcy

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