Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Ceremonial purification; especially, a religious act of purgation or cleansing by the use of water or certain sacrifices or ceremonies, or both, performed among the ancients upon persons, armies, cities, localities, animals, etc. The ceremony was practised by the Greeks chiefly to free its subjects from the pollution of crime, but by the Romans as a general means of securing a divine blessing, and in some cases at regular fixed intervals, as of the whole people every five years.
Wiktionary
- n. A rite of purification, especially washing.
- n. The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of lustrating or purifying.
- n. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
Etymologies
- Latin lustratio (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The idea of airing the past as part of a healing process, and excluding members of the former regime from positions of authority - a process known as "lustration" - is being actively promoted by some in the Ukrainian administration.”
“So Christ proposes baptism, as the token of that lustration, which is to purify such as become citizens in the kingdom of heaven.”
“Today, across the border in Poland, a witch-hunt called "lustration" is on for anyone who allegedly "collaborated" in any way with the Communist regime.”
“For my own criticism of the farcical parody of so-called "lustration" in Poland, I would refer him and other readers to my column in The Guardian, May 24, 2007.”
“The process, called "lustration," has also been used by Czech right-wingers to embarrass and ruin progressive political leaders.”
Litvinenko's Death: Where the Far Right Meets International Crime
“My contribution to the debate on the "lustration" law reflects my belief that democracy will prevail in Czechoslovakia, and that it is possible to change the atmosphere of fear, hatred, and distrust that the law has engendered by taking responsibility for the punishment of past abuses out of the hands of politicians.”
“We read Jeri Laber's article "Witch Hunt in Prague" [NYR, April 23] with great interest while we were in Prague studying the implementation in Czechoslovakia of the screening law, the so-called "lustration" process, for the British Helsinki Human Rights Group.”
“Usually, even after the most measured, innocent mention of "lustration", the "G team" starts shouting in unison about "bloody repressions of democratic murderers" and "witch hunts", after which they just lapse into obscene hysteria.”
“All the other goodies - such as the release of prisoners or the 'lustration' of the RUC - have long since been delivered.”
“For the rest I will take care that due warning is given, and a notice put up in all places, to prevent you being entered on the census as absent; and to get put on the census just before the lustration is the mark of your true man of business. [”
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘lustration’.
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Especially
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awash
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
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the omnibus
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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hagendas 2011
putsch, horrent, minify, rodomontade, malapropism, bowdlerize, voluptuary, teleology, vesicle, moneth, euphonius, concupiscence and 40 more...
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Old School Commentators
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yarb All these days they have tended the snakes, washed them with repeated lustrations, soothed them, and exchanged spirits with them.
- the execrable D.H. Lawrence, The Hopi Snake Dance, from Mornings in Mexico Oct 6, 2008