- (n.) The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.
- (n.) A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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