Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cleansing; purifying.
- noun That which purifies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
depurate orcleanse ;depurative .
Etymologies
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Compare French dépuratoire.
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Examples
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The three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint – Mande, with their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their depuratory branches, only date from 1836.
Les Miserables 2008
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The three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mande, with their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their depuratory branches, only date from 1836.
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The three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mande, with their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their depuratory branches, only date from 1836.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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