purgation

Example Sentences

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We do serious metaphysical work for them—aiding their future, speeding their purgation, and keeping them present in the thick cosmos that surrounds us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Masli responded by dreaming up a ritual involving a sock that was set on fire in symbolic purgation of burdensome resentments.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

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

That means treating it as a possible purgation, a lesson in the insufficiency of human strategies and wisdom, and a reason to embrace T.S.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 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