Purgation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PURGATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of purging
• purification or cleansing
• (in Catholic doctrine) the spiritual cleansing of a soul in purgatory.
• the action of clearing oneself of accusation or suspicion by taking an oath or undergoing an ordeal.
• evacuation of the bowels brought about by taking laxatives.
• act of purging or state of being purged
• The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.
• The clearing of one\'s self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal.
• purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
• a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
• the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or result of purging

Words related to PURGATION

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How to use PURGATION in a sentence

• Men and women saw the bad days of Duke Alessandro revived, and Florence, after a temporary purgation, became once more the sink of iniquity.
• If I love thee, Joan! Those very words are a purgation to me.
• Purgation is when the fact is admitted, but when the guilt of the fact is sought to be done away.
• Love, hope, pain, sorrow, disappointment, often effect that momentary purgation which enables consciousness to function independently of the tyrant will.
• If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation.
• Nothing is more to be deplored in human institutions, than that the ideas of mankind should have annexed a sentiment of disgrace to a purgation thus satisfactory and decisive.
• The method of the Parmenides may be compared with the process of purgation, which Bacon sought to introduce into philosophy.
• I do not think that anyone has recommended either arecolin or eserin where there is severe purgation.
• Therefore this purgation of divine mercy, destroying all error, leaves no flesh, no matter, to the mental consciousness.
• The simplest of these processes was purgation by oath.
• Meanwhile it may be pointed out that purgation by oath was itself a distinct appeal to the Almighty.
• When, at length, he was content, he placed himself in the hands of this jury as regarded the purgation of the charge.
• Here, it is evident, we are on the same ground as in the chapter treating of purgation by oath and the ordeal.
• Those whom Dante saw ascending from terrace to terrace of the Mount of Purgation were in all stages continuously and truly themselves.
• The blackest fiend that glooms the midnight air of hell, bleached through the merciful purgation of sorrow and loyalty, may become a white angel and be drawn into heaven.
• When there is purgation from filthiness, separation from the world, and dedication to the Lord, there there is holiness and nowhere else.
• Essex, and early in 1330 was admitted to purgation.
• Society was put to its purgation in very plausible fashion.

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