lustration

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

Thus did the Greeks begin all things with lustration and end with libation, each day, each feast,—all their solemn treaties, their ceremonies, and sacred festivals.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various