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

From the earliest period it has been considered a bird of ill-omen, and Pliny tells us how, on one occasion, even Rome itself underwent a lustration, because one of them strayed into the Capitol.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger