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English
Etymology
Originally as a calque or translation of various Latin or Spanish terms.[1]
Noun
purging place (plural purging places)
- A place where purging occurs, particularly:
- (premodern medicine, obsolete) A body part where excess humors are expelled.
- (obsolete) A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
1577, Antonio de Guevara, translated by Edward Hellowes, Chronicles, page 29:
- (Christianity, now rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
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References
- ^ "purging, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.