purify
verb (used with object)
to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates.
has purified
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present perfectof purify (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world.
From Time Magazine Archive
My precious Edna, no oath shall ever soil my lips again; the touch of yours has purified them.
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
I am right now, quite happy; dying has purified me of the evil which touched me, and I colour ugly things with my own peace and joy.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
"Nay, dear heart," she replied, "the long trial of our love has purified it from earthly dross, and proved it the type of love immortal in the skies."
From Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812 by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow
But I was dead to you, and I would not break in with an earthly love that must be brief and might not be blessed on a memory that death has purified of its stains.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
