meaning of purification
1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.
2. The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.
3. A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
4. the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing; "purification through
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