purgation

Example Sentences

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A post-death purifying fire seems a process of purgation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Maybe it was something I needed to write for myself, a quiet purgation that I’d keep in the cold, dark storage of my laptop’s hard drive forever.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2022

The seventh and eighth centuries saw the growth of teaching about an intermediate place where souls undergo purification and purgation.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2019

And to lose that call, in this era of scandal and unfinished purgation, could easily leave only the corruption, undiluted and unchecked.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2019

“You know quite well,” he said, “that trial by ordeal has been abolished, and, as for doing it by purgation, it would be impossible to find the necessary number of peers for a Queen.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White