purification

English

Etymology

From Old French purificacion, from Latin purificatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpjʊəɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

purification (countable and uncountable, plural purifications)

1. The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.

   air purification

   purification of water

2. A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.

   purification of the soul

3. (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.

Derived terms

• copurification

Related terms

• purificative
• purificational
• purificatory

Translations

act of purifying

• Bulgarian: пречистване (bg) n (prečistvane)
• Catalan: purificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使純淨／使纯净 (shǐ chúnjìng), 使潔淨／使洁净 (shǐ jiéjìng), 純化／纯化 (zh) (chúnhuà)

• Finnish: puhdistaminen (fi), puhdistuminen, puhdistautuminen
• French: purification (fr) f
• Galician: purificación (gl) f
• German: Reinigung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (hraineins)
• Greek: εξαγνισμός (el) m (exagnismós), κάθαρση (el) f (kátharsi), καθαρμός (el) m (katharmós)

  Ancient: κάθαρσις f (kátharsis)

• Japanese: 浄化 (ja) (じょうか, jōka)
• Maori: whakaparakoretanga, purenga (religious rite), whakahoromatatanga
• Persian: خالص سازی‎ (xâles-sâzi), تخلیص‎ (fa) (taxlis), پالایش‎ (fa) (pâlâyeš), پازش‎ (fa) (pâzeš) (rare)
• Polish: oczyszczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: purificação (pt) f
• Romanian: purificare (ro) f, curățire (ro) f
• Russian: очи́стка (ru) f (očístka), очище́ние (ru) n (očiščénije)
• Spanish: (alloys) fundición (es) f, purificación (es) f, limpia (es) f
• Swedish: rening (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagtagnas

a religious act or rite where a person is made clean

• Galician: purificación (gl) f
• Gothic: 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (hraineins)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κάθαρσις m (kátharsis), ἁγνισμός m (hagnismós)

• Latin: februum n
• Maori: purenga
• Middle English: purgynge

French

Etymology

From Latin pūrificātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.ʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

purification f (plural purifications)

1. purification

Related terms

• purifier

Further reading

• “purification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.