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/pjˈʊrəfˌaɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Purify v. t. (past & past part. purified; pres. part. purifying)

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

Hence, in figurative uses:

(a)

To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. "And fit them so Purified to receive him pure."

(b)

To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. "And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar,... and purified the altar." "Purify both yourselves and your captives."

(c)

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

Purify v. i. To grow or become pure or clear.

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Etymology of 'Purifying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Purifying" Quotes from Famous Books

... outgrowing what we know as human love, we add thereunto a million fold, refining, purifying and intensifying the sex instinct until it bears a relationship to the average instance of sex-expression, analogous to that which the single-celled organism bears to intellectual man. If we will keep in mind the fact that Life ...

— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad

... knight thus makes much comfort out of our physical weakness. But something may be done in a very different direction, namely, by spiritual strength. By elevating and purifying the sorrow, we may take it more out of matter, as it were, and so feel less the loss of what ...

— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps

... fingers, and then fetch another bowl of water to rinse it. There was no napkin to be seen. She left the things to drain as they could, and went to the spring to wash her own fingers; rejoicing in the purifying properties of the sweet element. All this took some time, but Daisy carried in her clean dishes with a ...

— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell

... inspired statement made by Peter. Referring to the Gentiles he says that God "put no difference between them" and us Jews who were sanctified at Pentecost, "purifying their hearts by faith." ...

— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees

... Empedocles, and to say that Werther was a mistake, is to circumscribe the sphere of art by a definition which the public taste will refuse to recognize. Nor is it true, in spite of Schiller's authority, that "all art is dedicated to enjoyment." Tragedy has other objects, the katharsis or purifying of the emotions for instance, which, if we are to continue to use words in their ordinary sense, is something distinct from enjoyment, and not always reconcilable with it. Whatever will excite interest in a healthy, vigorous mind, that is a fair object of ...

— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

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