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Cleansing

noun

The act of making something clean. Synonyms: cleaning, cleanup.

adjective

Cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands. Synonym: ablutionary.

Acting like an antiseptic. Synonym: purifying.

Cleanse

verb

(past & past part. cleansed; pres. part. cleansing)

Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing. Synonym: clean. "Clean your fingernails before dinner"

Purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins.

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"Cleansing" Quotes from Famous Books

... later day—borrowed, some say, from Buddhism, or, according to others, from Christianity. In the Hindu saint all spiritual power in this life is the merit power of ascetic austerities, all hope for the future world lies in the cleansing efficacy of endless transmigrations of which the goal is ...

— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood

... water rate being collected by American officials. The meanest house is equipped with a water-closet and a shower-bath. Panama and Colon are now models of cleanliness, and from their appearance might belong to a North American State. Efficiency is the watchword, and in cleansing these towns the American health officers have not troubled themselves with the compromises which would temper the despotism of British officials. Americans can hardly be imagined as stretching their consciences by such a concession as that, for instance, which in British India ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor

... icy Jordan, on that chill December afternoon, when the snows lay thick on the ground, the leaders stood and buried the sinful ones anew in the cleansing waters. From the sinners themselves came cries of self-accusation; from the crowd on the banks came the strains of hymns to fortify them for the icy ...

— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

... a turning from evil or a return to God) chiefly to mean a change of life. Sin is evil life, atonement is the better life. The better life was attained by fasting, prayer, and charity, by a purification of the heart and a cleansing of the hands. The ritual side of atonement was seriously weakened by the loss of the Temple. The sacrificial atonement was gone. Nothing replaced it ritually. Hence the Jewish tendency towards a practical religion was strengthened by its almost enforced stress in atonement ...

— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

... depths of despondency, he held on with immovable patience and fortitude, putting caution against hope, that it might not be premature, and hope against caution that it might not yield to dread and danger. He wrestled ceaselessly, through four black and dreadful purgatorial years, wherein God was cleansing the sin of ...

— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various

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