lustrate
verb (used with object)
to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
lustration
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a word derived from
lustrate.
Example Sentences
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Candidates for public administration jobs have since had to submit a so-called lustration certificate issued by the interior ministry.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Kysela told AFP the lustration law had a greater moral than legal value at present.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
At the end of the evening, they wound up in front of the Plaza Hotel, with Terrell, in a suit, and his agent, in his underwear, swimming in the fountain—a big-city lustration.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2016
In brief their baptism is not just a lustration, a sprinkling or a spattering.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had an inward sense of lustration and release: the soul rose clean as from a bath of fire; the will, so often misdirected, was modulated to the perfect harmony of this external world.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
