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

In November he convened a trio featuring the bassist Christian McBride and the drummer Milford Graves; the gig was an unqualified success — a shot of freak-jazz purgation just days after a bewildering presidential election.

From New York Times • May 25, 2017

“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