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- noun Plural form of
purification .
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Examples
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This is why the New Year is the occasion for "purifications," for the expulsion of sins, of demons, or merely of a scapegoat.
Meditation: In illo tempore William Harryman 2007
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Orphics and Pythagoreans alike was to secure by means of 'purifications'
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Ostanes were regarded as magicians, while a similar suspicion attached to the 'purifications' of Empedocles, the 'demon' of Socrates and the
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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In reality, Delos was considered a sacred island from 1000 BC and, after "purifications" and decrees from Athens, maintained as a major treasury and mercantile centre in late Hellenistic and Roman times.
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In reality, Delos was considered a sacred island from 1000 BC and, after "purifications" and decrees from Athens, maintained as a major treasury and mercantile centre in late Hellenistic and Roman times.
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In reality, Delos was considered a sacred island from 1000 BC and, after "purifications" and decrees from Athens, maintained as a major treasury and mercantile centre in late Hellenistic and Roman times.
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In reality, Delos was considered a sacred island from 1000 BC and, after "purifications" and decrees from Athens, maintained as a major treasury and mercantile centre in late Hellenistic and Roman times.
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"purifications," dealing with the clean and the unclean.
Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle
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JERUSALEM (RNS) When Mohammad Rabah prays during the holy month of Ramadan, he makes a special effort to conserve water during ritual purifications.
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American politics is about to go through one of its periodic purifications.
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