Ablution is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABLUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a ceremonial act of washing parts of the body or sacred containers.
• (in army slang) a building or room containing washing facilities and toilets.
• an act of washing oneself
• The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
• The water used in cleansing.
• A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest\'s thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.
• the ritual washing of a priest\'s hands or of sacred vessels
• ritual washing of a priest's hands
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a washing
• ritual washing of a priest\'s hands

Words related to ABLUTION

ablutionary16 ablutions11

Words that contain ABLUTION

ablutions11 ablutionary16

How to use ABLUTION in a sentence

• If running water were not accessible, every tent had a tin basin for the morning ablution, each soldier taking turn good humoredly.
• To dignify this number still more, sick and wounded persons are supposed, by oriental novelists, to recover and perform the ablution of cure on the fortieth day.
• Then he produced a towel, sponge, and an india-rubber bowl full of water, and I gave the child a generous drink and a thorough ablution.
• When we got dressed, we proceeded to the waters of the lake, in which we washed our face and hands, repeating prayers during the ablution.
• He was covered with railway dust and smoke, yet he saw no conveniences for ablution.
• The man who had passed by me had already reached the ablution shed and I could see a faint gleam from his candle in the distance, so that I did not fear to lose my way.
• Noborinosuke laughed outright, and submitted to the ablution.
• Although the ablution of repentance was the institution of John, it was in reality formerly practiced in the religion of God.
• Whoever received the ablution of baptism, and repented of sins in absolute humility and meekness, would also purify and cleanse his body from outward impurities.
• In others, it is used in the sense of ablution, bathing.
• Performing a rather hasty ablution, I met the vehicle, freshened, and with my wits on tap.
• When he got through the ablution, one pail was empty, and the other full.
• At length, the day dawned, and we tried, by copious ablution and a change of dress, to refresh ourselves after our sleepless night.
• It was not a mere rose-water ceremony, but a good hearty washing of feet that for the most part had great need of the ablution.
• The colonel then apologised to Newton, while he repaired to the bath, and in a few minutes returned, having undergone this necessary ablution after a mango feast.
• He made ablution with sand, as Mohammed allows when water cannot be found.
• There, in addition to the pleasures of ablution, they will receive a partial change of raiment.
• He imagines her without ablution, naked to smell, touch, sight, and taste.
• It was an ablution from soiled things sticking onto her and she was glad it was that way.
• After ablution and the anointing with oil, the holocaust of victims began.
• It was during a prolonged drought, and both gentlemen had evidently experienced a difficulty in finding a sufficiency of water for the purposes of ablution.

Similar words containing ABLU without suffix tion

ablush11 pablum12 abluent9 abluted10 pablums13 abluents10 ablutions11 ablutomane14 ablutionary16 ablutomanes15

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