NOUN
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
How To Use purgation In A Sentence
- She was cautious, but Feinstein finds no trace of dishonour in the care she took to keep herself alive and free through successive waves of revolution and purgation.
- The Colonel decided to continue without expurgation. Soul
- : -- "In Cardani de Subtilitate et de Varietate libris passim latet anguis in herba et indiget expurgatione Ecclesiasticæ limæ. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
- c. detrition d. trituration Ans: (a) Explanation: purgation = act of spiritual purification all other words are related to 'powderiness'. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Rather than wrap herself up in the mystique of the antipathic artist, Polly admits she's trapped in a self-defeating cycle of suffering followed by songwriting purgation.
- It's not a light read, but it is a very complete and thought provoking discussion of how the manipulation of hope (to motivate people to contribute to the church to save the newly categorized souls in purgation) and fear (the explicit construction of a devil, of hell, and of what you had to do to get there) was managed, out of pretty thin sources in the bible. Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives
- But in all cases the cure is effected essentially by a kind of catharsis or purgation - a release of the pent-up psychic energy, the constriction of which was the basic cause of the neurotic illness.
- For example, if you’re asked if you’ve ever been convicted, when do you still have to say “yes” (because it * did* happen), and when can you answer no since the expurgation is supposed to let you pretend it never happened? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Down the Memory Hole” Speech Restrictions, Supported by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
- But we cannot therefore say that the spiritual nature is not susceptible of a healing and purgation which is absolutely perfect, to which the cleansing or health of the body is no true analogy. Sermons. Volume the Second.
- Upon a closer investigation, however, it became evident that the task of expurgation would prove to be a most formidable one, and that a great mass of extraneous matter would require to be inserted in explanation of motives which were wholly personal and therefore to be omitted from the book. Movie Night