purgation
n. 清洁, 净化, 洗罪, 通便 [医] 催泻
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释义与例句
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1.
The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.
可数 不可数Records concerning the individual purgations, which tell us about the crime of the offender and the date of his release, are much more capriciously registered: four dioceses, or some eight counties, yield only fifty-four examples between 1450 and 1530; out of twenty-four registers eleven have no such entries.
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The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
可数 不可数But those females who conceive without menstrual purgations, or who conceive during the time of the menstrual efflux, and not afterwards, […] and in the second instance because, after the completion of the menstrual purgations, the mouth of the womb becomes closed.
William evidently does not have the appreciation for women that Hildegard exhibits, yet he does not consider their monthly purgations to be a source of evil.
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Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration.
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词源
From Middle English purgacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman purgacion, itself borrowed from Latin pūrgātiō; equivalent to purge + -ation.
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