Word Meanings - PURIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals. 2. The act or operation of cleansing

Additional info about word: PURIFICATION

1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals. 2. The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. When the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished. Luke ii. 22. 3. A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURIFICATION)

• Ablution
• Washing
• purification
• cleansing
• abstersion
• defecation
• Lustration
• Purification
• expurgation
• expiation
• Purgation
• Clearing
• lustration
• clarification
• determine
• Refinement
• Clarification
• filtration
• sublimation
• polish
• elegance
• cultivation
• civilization
• subtilty
• finesse
• sophistry

Related words: (words related to PURIFICATION)

• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• WASHHOUSE
  An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• WASHSTAND
  A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• WASHY
  1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton. 2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• WASHED SALE
  See SALE
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• WASHINESS
  The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
• WASHING
  1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 2. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear , the raccoon. -- Washing bottle , a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• AWASH
  Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• SWASHING
  1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
• COMPURGATION
  The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• SUPERPURGATION
  Excessive purgation. Wiseman.