purification
noun
the act or process of making something pure and free of any contaminating, debasing, or foreign elements.
purifications
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pluralof purification.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One is an assay that would bypass laborious cell purifications and manipulations by detecting activated T cells in blood samples squirted into tubes premixed with bits of SARS-CoV-2 proteins.
From Scientific American ● May 19, 2022
He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
The uncleanness of the third plague deranged the whole system of Egyptian worship, with its punctilious and elaborate purifications.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
My real body doubtless left me for other spheres, My voided body, nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, farther offices, eternal uses of the earth.”
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist
In the fifth part are noticed sacrifices and holy things; and the sixth treats of purifications; vessels; furniture; clothes; houses; leprosy; baths; and numerous other articles.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
