lustration

There were no truth commissions, no lustration—the shining of light on past crimes and their perpetrators—no accountability for decades of repression.

She will direct Ukraine's department of "lustration", which aims to purge officials tainted by corruption.

The lustration department says hundreds of officials have been forced to resign over corruption, but Ukraine's corruption problem clearly still remains crippling.

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.

The word for Buckley’s act is “lustration,” and for two generations it upheld the honor of the mainstream conservative movement.