purification

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French purificacion, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin purificatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

purification (countable and uncountable, plural purifications)

1. The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
2. A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
3. (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.

Translations

act of purifying

• 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), 纯化 (zh) (chúnhuà)

• Finnish: puhdistaminen (fi), puhdistuminen, puhdistautuminen
• French: purification (fr) f
• Galician: purificación (gl) f
• German: Reinigung (de) f
• 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
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• 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 c
• Tagalog: pagtagnas

a religious act or rite where a person is made clean

• Galician: purificación (gl) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: κάθαρσις m (kátharsis)

• Latin: februum n
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• Maori: purenga

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French

Etymology

From Latin pūrificātiō.

Pronunciation

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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.