mundificatory

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mundificatory (comparative more mundificatory, superlative most mundificatory)

  1. Of or pertaining to cleansing
    • 1899, Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class [] [1], New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:
      Not that the results of her attention to household matters, of a decorative and mundificatory character, are not pleasing to the sense of men trained in middle-class proprieties; but the taste to which these effects of household adornment and tidiness appeal is a taste which has been formed under the selective guidance of a canon of propriety that demands just these evidences of wasted effort.
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