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purification

noun
/ˌpjʊəɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

From Old French purificacion, from Latin pūrificātiō.

  1. derived from pūrificātiō
  2. derived from purificacion

Definitions

  1. The act or process of purifying

    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. The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then…

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

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Derived

autopurification, biopurification, copurification, immunopurification, micropurification, nonpurification, phosphopurification, prepurification, repurification, ultrapurification

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at purification. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01purification02clean03contamination04contaminating05contaminate06impurities07impurity

A definitional loop anchored at purification. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at purification

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA