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Purification   /pjˌʊrəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Purification

noun
1.
The act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities.
2.
The process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.).  Synonyms: refinement, refining.
3.
A ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites.  Synonym: purgation.
4.
The act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing.





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"Purification" Quotes from Famous Books



... emitted to the air have fallen steadily, the emissions of 2000 were 80% less than in 1980; the amount of unpurified wastewater discharged to water bodies in 2000 was one twentieth the level of 1980; in connection with the start-up of new water purification plants, the pollution load of wastewater decreased; Estonia has more than 1,400 natural and manmade lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas need to be monitored; coastal seawater is polluted in ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... escaping from my hands, and finishing the remainder of the purification with his cambric pocket-handkerchief. 'I promised mamma that I wouldn't say one word to him, and ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte
... A double aim was to be served. The periodical was to promote the spread of knowledge and modern ideas in the Hebrew language, the only language available for the Jews of the ghetto; and at the same time it was to promote the purification of Hebrew, which had degenerated in the Rabbinical schools. Its readers were to be familiarized with the social and aesthetic demands of modern life, and induced to rid themselves of ingrained peculiarities. Besides its success in these directions, it must be set to the ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz
... the later development of the doctrine of faith (Bakti) Hinduism fails to connect with it any moral purification or elevation. See quotations from Elphinstone and Wilson in Christ and Other ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood
... in running water, as every student of earth-lore knows. There is high magic, too, in the marriage of rivers, so that the spot where two mingle their streams is sacred, endowed with strange properties of evocation and of purification. Such spots go to the making of history and ruling of individual lives; but whether their influence is not more often malign than beneficent may be, perhaps, ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet


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