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English
Etymology
From Old French purificacion, from Latin pūrificātiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
purification (countable and uncountable, plural purifications)
- The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
air purification
purification of water
- A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
purification of the soul
- (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.
Derived terms
Translations
act of purifying
- Arabic: تَطْهِير (taṭhīr)
- 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)
- Indonesian: pemurnian (id), purifikasi (id)
- Italian: purificazione (it) f
- Japanese: 浄化 (ja) (じょうか, jōka)
- Malay: penulenan
- 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), пурификация (ru) f (purifikacija)
- Spanish: fundición (es) f (alloys), purificación (es) f, limpia (es) f
- Swedish: rening (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagtagnas
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religious act or rite where a person is made clean
French
Etymology
From Latin pūrificātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
purification f (plural purifications)
- purification
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