purification
The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
Example
“air purification”
Other meanings
A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
“purification of the soul”
The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.
Related words
- copurification
- autopurification
- biopurification
- immunopurification
- micropurification
- nonpurification
- phosphopurification
- prepurification
- repurification
- ultrapurification
Where this comes from
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