lustration
- noun
- /lʌsˈtreɪʃən/
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lustración
- The ritual lustration involved washing and blessing the ceremonial objects used in the worship.
Examples
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In ancient Rome, a lustration was performed to cleanse the city after a plague.
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Before the festival, a special lustration was held to purify the sacred grounds.
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One of the first legal acts that sanctioned the systematic abuse of human rights in Albania was a lustration-type law passed in 1993.
Academic text (1995) -
The cross carved in the tail of the belt worn by the Virgin, identical to the types of crosses inscribed on altars for use as the objects of lustration during liturgical consecration, reinforces this notion.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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A ritual cleaning of people or places before a religious event
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A washing of a priest's hands or sacred cups during a religious ceremony
A ceremony that cleans a person or place for spiritual reasons
An act that uses a ritual to clean a person or place
A ceremony held every five years after the census to make the Roman people pure
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How Purifying
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Etymology
The word lustration comes from the Latin verb lustrāre, which means 'to purify' or 'make bright', and it first named a Roman cleansing ritual. So a lustration is a ceremony to purify people, places, or objects.