purification

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9 And when the days of her purification were accomplished, she gave suck to the child; and called her name Mary.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of cleansing or purifying.

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  • She shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled. —  GetReligion
  • Indeed it is this latter aspect, the jihad with oneself as one resists temptations and strives against his / her evil tendencies, which Prophet Muhammad referred to as "the Greater Jihad," because purification of the soul or simply self-purification is an around-the-clock process in which one engages in a steadfast introspection. —  MRZine.org
  • Conversion in the sense of self-purification, self-realization is the crying need of the times. —  MercatorNet
  • This means the air food water purification is the key in every step of the chain. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • The corresponding fusion proteins consist of the maltose-binding protein and a His-tag sequence for affinity purification, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Smt3 protein for protein processing by proteolytic cleavage and the protein of interest. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. from French purification = Spanish purification = Portuguese purificação = Italian purificazione, from Latin purificatio(n-), a purifying, from purificare, past participle purificatus, make clean: see purify.
 

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/pjurɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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