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cleansing - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun
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adjective cleanses .noun verb cleanse .
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noun adjective adjective
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There's cleansing ; yes, blessed fact! there's _cleansing_ from this horrid impurity whose stain you are so conscious of.
Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 1897
But almost immediately, some local priests announced that tomorrow they're going to be holding what they call a cleansing ceremony to take out any bad spirits, they say, that may have come in during the Bush visit.
CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2007 2007
On Wednesday, video posted on a social media website by the Syrian army shows military troops celebrating what they call the 'cleansing ' of Latakia.
Reuters: Press Release 2011
"To refer to 'cleansing ' is deeply offensive to people who have witnessed cleansing in other parts of the world," he fumed.
Nick 'O'Teen' Clegg turns nasty Simon Hoggart 2010
This theory became one of the major tenets of his preaching, and was especially efficacious in cleansing the consciences of the back-sliders from all other faiths who else, in the secrecy of their subconscious selves, were being crushed by the weight of the
WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010
This means that ritual cleansing is required before one is able to perform prayers.
Dogs: Iran's new symbol of rebellion Masoud Golsorkhi 2010
After all, ethnic cleansing is now totally OK with the US.
Carter asks Jewish community for forgiveness 2009
The notion that we had even a backhanded role in ethnic cleansing is not something to be proud of.
Matthew Yglesias » Over There 2009
Wright also said that "ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza, and ethnic cleansing by the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity."
Race, religion and domestic terrorism 2009
And the anonymous, faceless robots of this block are bent on one objective above all: the cleansing from the German-speaking lands of “the low, materialistic Jews.”
The 2,000-Year-Old Panic 2008
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