Associations to the word «Purification»

Wiktionary

PURIFICATION, noun. The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
PURIFICATION, noun. A religious act in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.

Dictionary definition

PURIFICATION, noun. The act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities.
PURIFICATION, noun. The process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.).
PURIFICATION, noun. A ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites.
PURIFICATION, noun. The act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing; "purification through repentance".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne