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
Beautiful art, from its side, has thus performed the same service as philosophy: it has purified the spirit from its thraldom.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Do not we know that the purer our love, and the more it has purified us, the more sensitive it becomes, even while the less suspicious it becomes?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander
This blood has purified the sanctuaries and the Holy of Holies.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
He is one in whom holiness has purified, but somewhat dwarfed the man.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret
