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Purifying   /pjˈʊrəfˌaɪɪŋ/   Listen
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Purify  v. t.  (past & past part. purified; pres. part. purifying)  
1.
To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
2.
Hence, in figurative uses:
(a)
To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. "And fit them so Purified to receive him pure."
(b)
To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. "And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar,... and purified the altar." "Purify both yourselves and your captives."
(c)
To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.



Purify  v. i.  To grow or become pure or clear.





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"Purifying" Quotes from Famous Books



... soot-water has this advantage over coarse animal manures, that while the latter are unhealthy and apt to taint the air, the former is purifying and has no unpleasant smell. It is easily made by tying a little soot in a coarse canvas bag and immersing it in a pail of water. It should be applied in a clear, thin state to plants in bud or in full growth ...
— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink
 
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... Nile, beaten among the sand. Agriculture, then, by the hand or by the plough drawn only by animals; and shepherd and pastoral husbandry, are to be the chief schools of Englishmen. And this most royal academy of all academies you have to open over all the land, purifying your heaths and hills, and waters, and keeping them full of every kind of lovely natural organism, in tree, herb, and living creature. All land that is waste and ugly, you must redeem into ordered fruitfulness; ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
 
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... proven by an inspired statement made by Peter. Referring to the Gentiles he says that God "put no difference between them" and us Jews who were sanctified at Pentecost, "purifying their hearts by faith." ...
— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees
 
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... the world's salvation can only be achieved at such a cost. We know scarcely anything of the conditions that control the return to earth of the Avataras, the "Sons of God," except that sometimes great Initiates, after purifying their bodies, voluntarily hand them over to the "gods," who come down to earth—a sublime sacrifice which, like that of the Saviours who consent to come amongst us, shows forth that supreme characteristic of divinity; ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
 
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... them all, settled the question—they smelt of cigars. This was very shocking, of course: I thought so at first, and used to open the window with some bustle, to air my desk, and with fastidious finger and thumb, to hold the peccant brochures forth to the purifying breeze. I was cured of that formality suddenly. Monsieur caught me at it one day, understood the inference, instantly relieved my hand of its burden, and, in another moment, would have thrust the same into the glowing stove. It chanced to be a book, on the ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
 
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