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

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 experience was extraordinarily grueling — a stripping and peeling feeling, with each regimen creating a feeling of purgation, followed by temporary relief, followed by doing it all over again.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2021

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

“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