lustration

Example Sentences

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Kysela told AFP the lustration law had a greater moral than legal value at present.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

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

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

It is always meritorious—so the Hindoo holds—to bathe in that sacred river, but such a time as this, when the sun is in eclipse, is the most propitious moment of all for such lustration.

From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)