purgation
- noun
- /ˌpɜrˈɡeɪʃən/
- Formal
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purificación
- In many cultures, a ritual purgation is performed to cleanse the spirit before important events.
- otherworldly purgation
Examples
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Yet, we cannot overlook the fact that Catherine understands herself to be describing the purgation of all the souls that are, or ever have been, or ever will be in purgatory.
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In Book 21.26, Augustine speaks of a purifying fire as the cause of the otherworldly pain of purgation, an idea he mentions in several of his works.
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God is utterly the agent of the soul's purgation.
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We are brought to your place of purgation and tested in the fire of purification.
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But judgment, in Christian belief, is not confined to supernatural purgation.
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Such that if you die and warrant Heaven, your soul will have to undergo a cleansing, a purgation, if you will.
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This early conception links purgation to the judgment that God has made on those who suffer otherworldly pain.
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First, and minimally, purgatory conflated the layperson and the ascetic in their shared need for purgation after death.
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Traditional translations of catharsis as "purgation of emotion" or "purification" are not consistent with the aspects of "discovery" indicated by the Brechtian notion of "distancing."
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Even though there is mention of otherworldly purgation in Augustine's City of God and a host of purgatory-like ideas in the writings of the ancient Church Fathers and in early medieval texts, the evidence strongly suggests that the doctrine of purgatory developed relatively late in the Catholic tradition.
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Synonyms
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A ceremony to make an evil spirit leave a person or place
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A ritual cleaning of people or places before a religious event
A ceremony that cleans a person or place for spiritual reasons
A ceremony that purifies people, places, or objects in ancient religions
Relating to washing the body for religious or spiritual reasons
Antonyms
How Pure
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Purgation comes from the Latin purgare, 'to clean'. Think of a ritual washing that removes what is 'unclean'—purgation here means a ceremonial cleansing to make people or a place pure.